skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to wonder about the effects of the essentially useless economic activity that the NFT market creates. No real value is created, yet absurd amounts of value are invested in it.

China already banned cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, not insignificant portions of the US tech sector along with investors, including retail investors, are investing time and capital in the cryptocurrency and NFT scam markets.
I think the DAO hack is misrepresented in the crypto community lore. The network simply decided to follow the main developers and those that did not, kept with what is now ETH classic. A hard fork can happen in absolutely _all_ cryptocurrencies, and I see it as a feature rather than a bug.
You already know why, it just boggles the mind; that its really happening on this forum.
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Sigh, more trash from America’s favorite shitcoin casino. Why bother with hard decentralized money when you can buy centralized jpegs.
> After you're on the waitlist, you'll get a referral link to share. Be first in line for early access by referring others. The more you refer, the higher up in line you’ll go.

This waitlist concept is just artificial scarcity for accounts that aren't actually scarce and that have no reason to be limited. The only way to increase your position in the queue is to advertise it and get more people lower down to buy into the premise, further pushing the illusion to everyone else that the positions at the front of the queue are valuable and in demand.

In other words, it's the perfect way to launch an NFT platform.
Sounds like you've answered your own question there.
Physicists take a key step in correcting quantum computer errors
I think the fact that vaccination is only 3:5 demonstrates that it is remarkably close between parties and people should be more thoughtful about characterization. It is not like it is 100:1 or some extremely skewed distribution.
Looks like the docs are live alongside the announcement –

"The PostgreSQL language in Cloud Spanner": https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/postgresql/overview

"PostgreSQL interface" under the Concepts section: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/postgresql-interface
Sigh, after GDPR (IMHO rightfully) doing its best to kill public-by-default WHOIS, now double-down in the reverse. Seriously wonder if any lobby pushed for that or self-thought-out stupidity.
I don't follow Solana, but assuming their NFTs are the same as Ethereum's, the long-term potential value is the proof of ownership and the rights that may bring, not the image itself.

I can take a picture of someone else's bank balance, I can even edit the html on a picture of my own bank account to have the same numbers and post that on twitter. It's the same pixels, sure... but it doesn't let me spend the dollars.
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They cannot roll it back. Anybody can create a hard fork, and nobody is forced to use that version. In fact, the version that was not rolled back still exists, and we are all free to use it if we wish!
> Pranks can be an outlet for creativity and learning that might not otherwise happen.

Great.

But do it with your own things then. Don't bother anyone else or touch anyone else's things.

And no worker should ever have to do any work (such as reset a computer system) because of your prank. Workers have enough work to do and enough hassles in their lives.
For the geographically illiterate, NSW refers to the Australian state of New South Wales (vs. Not Safe for Work, Naval Strike Wing, Newman–Shanks–Williams prime number, Nintendo Switch, or U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command).
Is there some reason "1PN6H2" is appended to the link? Is it some sort of identifier for visitors or affiliates? https://www.coinbase.com/nft/announce/ works just fine too.

EDIT: I see now!

> After you're on the waitlist, you'll get a referral link to share. Be first in line for early access by referring others. The more you refer, the higher up in line you’ll go.
Three things are remarkable about this, and make it a happy story.

First, that the pranksters were so egregiously responsible in the way they went about it. They avoided disrupting any actual educational activities; it was meant to be harmless fun, not vandalism. No harm came to anything here.

Second, that they documented their findings to the administration as part of the action, including recommendations for improvements.

Third, the administration took this as exactly that: a harmless prank by smart, ethical kids who ALSO did them a favor by pointing out the vulnerabilities. If the admin had a panicked fit about this, they could have made it an ugly situation.

My educational experience was populated far more by "freak out and yell" types than this school district, which was a shame.
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> New projects use git2, existing projects use git (or something like that). Otherwise confusion and backwards-compatibility breakage will abound.

Like uh, python2 and python3? ;-p
To respond to the title: yes, yes they are, if you consider how many live in infura or an AWS geth instance and/or quorum by JPM. Doesn't mean its not a better means for data security...just that yes, the publisher of said smart contract can just replace or change to contract if they really wanted to if it were not part of the mainnet. There are many infura nodes though that are part of the mainnet, so that's unlikely unless some company just forced all users to their own ETH network.
Dick Thaler, who won a Nobel prize in econ, wrote a book called Nudge (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_(book for more info), which I'd bet good money Fauci and the entire public policy elite have read and internalized.

The book is basically about how the ruling class should think about structuring policy and messaging to create the outcomes they desire--"choice architecture". Thaler's work describes how public policy "experts" should frame their messaging such that us sheep submit to their will.

Notably, nothing in the book is about how to make public policy to benefit the actual people--the built-in assumption is that our rulers have the unique ability to see the future that is best, and this book simply describes how to achieve that future. Honesty is not a consideration in itself--it is only one factor among many in considering second- and third-order consequences of particular messaging techniques and policy actions.

Our (that is, the peoples') "best interests" don't factor into their thinking one single iota.

If anyone thinks any of this pandemic crap has anything to do with helping people, at least as far as the rulers go, I feel so sorry for them.
In all of these scenarios the driver is the better protected and less vulnerable participant.

Ideally we should be improving infrastructure to ensure that the risks created by high speed lumps of metal is reduced as far as practically possible. But until that happens, we have to acknowledge that in the majority incidents drivers are only ones capable of changing the outcome. Additionally drivers should take one a greater responsibility when operating vehicles in areas where they might encounter more vulnerable road users. Vulnerable road users will always end up paying a substantially greater price in any incident, so it’s reasonable to ask drivers to be more careful to avoid those incidents.
Speak for yourself. My conversations are specific, detailed, factual.
Well, artists are making money at least.
I love reading both Nautilus and Quanta. Great articles.
I just linked the SQL dialect docs elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28845881

EDIT: of note, Spanner has its own first-party JDBC driver now too (fairly recent, IIUC): https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/open-source-jdbc
>>Although with how much the MAGA-crowd evokes the name of Hitler/Nazis to compare the current administration with it, maybe not...

I have not seen this widely used, and when it is often it is in the context of "And they called us Nazi's" or something to that effect.

The number of "MAGA-Types" comparing Biden to WWII Germany is a faction of the number of people that used the same comparison for Trump.

Neither are accurate, but Godwin demands that everything we dislike is just like fascism

//for the record, because I have not. I am neither Republican or Democrat I support the largest 3rd party in the US, they who can not be named....
What credibility is needed? Climate change is a fact and it’s going to disrupt society.

Letting people claim that it’s not real to build “credibility” with the same people who don’t believe in the objective fact does not but build “credibility” for the liars
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We've talked about it, but so far no, it messes with the x-axis a little too much (averages, history, compare, everything needs to work & line up across both time & northern/southern hemisphere, and what graph has two x-axes anyway!? ;) and while neat it's a little marginal from a substantive utility perspective?
The contract associated with the actor is generally that the actor is a persistent entity. Assuming that's the case, the service hosting the actor can be thought of as publishing a contract that the actor in question will continue to exist in the prior/appropriate state until it is told to change its state. You can of course amend this contract to have actors with finite lifetimes in which case you are responsible for figuring out the details of how you want to do so. In this sense Orleans Actors are essentially a distributed database (its often helpful to think of it explicitly as such).

Asking "what if the actor doesn't have the state I expect" is essentially the same thing as asking "what if my database doesn't have the value I expect?" If you're worried about cosmic rays mutating your actor state randomly, the same would be true of it muting a database. If you're worried about some other process mutating the state of your actor, the same would be true of that other process mutating the state of your database.

As to the specifics of whether the Actor is idempotent, that would depend on the details of the operation the Actor is empowered to perform on itself. You could set it to behave in an idempotent way or not. It sounds like you're approaching the question from the standpoint of wanting all your interactions to be idempotent, which of course would be a reasonable contract to impose but it's not a requirement that Actors have to work that way, it just happens to be a good idea if that's a thing you want.
Karl Marx, the 19th century philosopher and economist, is not particularly well known for murdering people.
Shouldn't it be that? I mean, isn't that a major success case if so?

That's how the physical world works. You or I can scribble whatever we want on a piece of paper and the median value of those creations is $0. It doesn't mean there isn't a valid art market that uses the same medium.
> Google enforces standards and opinions around things like programming languages, instrumentation and metrics, logging, and control systems surrounding traffic and load management.

I think the author read this as more of a problem than a solution. This concept is supported by the DevOps model too. Your infrastructure is just as much a part of your product and the teams providing the infrastructure just as responsible for the service levels and API contracts as any customer facing product team.
Starlink has to abide by the laws of whatever jurisdiction you are in. There's not many technical reasons why they can't provide roaming service on the seas but there are issues such as if you dock in a country that prohibits Starlink service, they're going to want some system in place to reject your packets. That shouldn't be too difficult but resources must be allocated to making it happen. They probably have other things on their plate now that are a higher priority.
Do we have any conclusive evidence that those acts were committed by particular groups rather than unaffiliated individuals?

In my limited experience, the grouped-up folks tend to take more measured actions, the lone wolves are more likely to cause trouble.
> lockdowns have significant irreversible costs for low risk individuals and for society

Sure, but let's keep in mind what they can do when they are effective.

China averted the deaths of 2.5-3 million people with an effective lockdown program. That's incredible.

I'm not confident I can really think of any policy proposition that would save more lives off of the top of my head.

The fact that we failed to do the same will go down as a tragedy of massive magnitude.

e: The jingoism here can be a bit too much. Any praise of any Chinese policy gets downvotes, even if one recognizes them as a despotic, racist regime. It's nativistic ignorance, plain and simple.
That was blocked at the web interface, if you wanted to use one of those tokens you could directly interact with the smart contract to get around those blocks
I was not disagreeing
That dashboard was gold. RIP.
The use case is a virtual meta-layer for the real world where you can interact with stuff without needing to look at a small glass handheld display.

Things like, pulling up addresses of buildings you look at, names of people you've met, line on ground for gps, playing board games with people without needing a board or dealing with the rule book (software assisted), see meta information floating around devices (battery level, year, serial number), etc. etc.

The UX of phones is pretty good but it suffers from its form factor. If you could have a UX for the world you can really enable a lot more human abilities in a really intuitive way and you can get closer to something that feels like telepathy.
Double agree with this suggestion - as I've split my life between hemispheres, weatherspark has been enormously useful for explaining relative climates to new and old friends, but I always have to edit the comparison graphs myself to put summer in the middle before sharing so you can actually compare the differences.
Might as well have no ethical boundaries of any kind!
Glad I could contribute something :)
Nah, those (if legitimate) aren’t tarpits. We’ve had, at various times, approved locations for waste, and we actually still approve the storage of waste on site - indefinite storage of ‘temporary waste’. Paying into an insurance fund in case of a nuclear disaster would be far cheaper than what has been happening.

What happens instead is 1) a set of requirements is made, 2) someone spends years figuring it out. 3) it gets approved, 4) before it finishes getting built (or started to be built in some case), someone files a lawsuit causing it to stop or changes the rules, 5) rinse and repeat, or;

Someone gets the bright idea to try something new and unproven, and then they pay all the R&D time, and then the first thing starts happening, and then you’re tarpitted again.

In California it even appears to be part of the plan for high speed rail; as the engineering firms get paid every time the plan needs to get redrawn, and they can keep juking between plans forever until the funds are gone. This happened with Caltrain electrification for a decade. Billions spent for literally a 45 miles’ish stretch of track to electrify it, with zero progress over that time.

If folks are being paid to make plans instead of make a project, that’s usually what they are going to do.
To be fair, "helping people comply with rules" and "just follow the rules" are pretty much synonymous.
Yes, Medlife Crisis talks about the issue of continuous flow artifixcal heart and mentioned that work is happening on one than mimmics the heart better in one of his videos.
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This is very abstract, but I believe that since both input and output are very close in program space compared to the total size of PS, the heuristics to map between them are going to be of a manageable size. This is based on an intuition about a single source for all activity in this universe.
Wanting to end racism is a different thing to wanting to prevent the spread of a communicable disease. You can want both things simultaneously, they're not in conflict.

It's also not necessary the same governments, or just government at all.

The federal government abdicated their responsibility to manage quarantine and border security to the states. It's been the states that have been managing quarantine, largely through Hotels (except in the Northern Territory, where they've had the Howard Springs facility.
they should have open sourced everything.. adobe keep making bad decisions, no wonder they are slowly decaying
I guess you could say that NFT's are a game like collection, gambling? So in this way NFT's create a value of being fun novelty?
> But really, the next great surge is biotech.

totally agree

> Who can even imagine what good and bad things that would bring about, and how profoundly the world around us could change?

i always thought it would be amazing if you could pick fresh chicken breasts (sealed in some kind of sterilized sack) off a tree just like apples and pears... just buy some seeds from the local store and boom, chicken dinners for everyone lol
Ah yeah right, I dunno if I’d made that connection before, seems obvious now.

Something else we used to say to each other at a school in the 90s was “BANG! - The Victorian Police Force”, if I recall correctly that was a running gag Full Frontal or Fast Forward did.
> There probably aren't that many Vlad the Impaler apologists in the world

Literally the entire genre of Vampire literature disagrees.
A followup paper to the original one as well: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4931830/
Good luck getting any change into Bitcoin that isn't good for every participant of the network. The last time people tried this, users, not even those users with the most Bitcoin at stake, were able to produce enough chaos and generate enough risk that they failed. Ethereum is capable of full consensus mechanism changes that hurt subsets of the network who don't hold the majority of Eth, the latest of which just further entrenched that ability.

I personally prefer the former for that reason, but by your critique, Ethereum is practically conducive to keeping the people who control the protocol small. Bitcoin is probably headed to a version freeze this decade, which is great.
The leetcode of the security world! Thankfully not that bad...yet.
Imagine if for every 9 vaccines you took you were told to take a mystery experimental gene therapy...
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New business plan: Offer cheap useless/fake phone numbers addresses that don't actually exist in any functional way to be used for whois data.
I don't know how much stock we should put in the exact sequence of events recalled by someone who had just woken up, but it doesn't seem that implausible to me.

It's not like the meteorite would have been traveling at thousands of miles per hour. By the time it got to ground level, it would have slowed down to its terminal velocity. Some amount of energy would have been absorbed in its collision with the roof, and it wouldn't have had time to accelerate very much in the remaining fraction of a second before coming to rest on a soft surface.

By way of comparison, I can easily imagine a dropped bowling ball going through a roof but not doing much damage to a bed and pillow.
Ethereum Classic without the rollback still exists, the old history didn't go anywhere. You and anyone else are free to use it.
Don't check the internet tomorrow if it ends up being a MyPillow.
NFTs don't bring proof of ownership. You can mint whatever. The only real protection to ownership is given through copyright and by asserting that legal right. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.
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True but I actually like the sense of passage conveyed by the existing title as you picture it closing in on the target.

Like that rock had a rough night and just wanted someplace soft to crash.
Old collision (2020). ;-)
You're arguing for the merits of marijuana being legal. That's different than arguing over the bounds of what government should and should not regulate.

A statement like "There is no logical reason to allow all drugs if you allow marijuana" is both correct and irrelevant here. The question is whether government had a right to regulate drugs. Once you agree it does, it has a right to regulate marijuana. If you don't think it does, it can't regulate any of them. Once you agree it can regulate drugs, which ones it regulates is purely a question of policy. Regulating marijuana might be a bad idea, but saying it's outside of the scope of government regulation is a view extreme for virtually any state, including Texas.

I'll also mention: There are a lot of breeds of Republican states. Many are not small government Republicans, for example, but Christian values Republicans. The Republican party is, in many ways, a weak confederacy on values. Texas is at an extreme end of believing it's about small government and freedom.

And yes, freedom is more complex than the Texas ideal. If I have $200k in college debt, two minimum wage jobs, I'm under NDA, a child support agreement, and without access to health care, I don't have much freedom. But that lack of freedom doesn't come from the government restricting me.
Axie as a product isn't even remotely decentralized, as far as I can understand (though I haven't tried to really pull it apart or anything, though I did spend way too long researching it a couple months ago): the majority of its product is a centralized gaming server that uses classic cheat-protection and rate limiting strategies, along with a game client that they require you to be using--they even ban bots! think: how can a decentralized game ban bots?!--which is important as it is effectively centrally minting its SLP token (by way of how that token comes from points you earn in the game from game play; this "should"--if it were actually decentralized--result in everyone using bots to play each other constantly for maximum SLP earning, instead of hiring people in the Philippines to play your characters for you). One would do better to ask "in what ways is Axie Infinity even a blockchain project?", as I feel like the answers are mostly going to suck.
I had Chrome RDP access on a few machines setup earlier, since I could come in-person with my team for security competitions.
I feel obligated to give a shout-out to the qrcode LaTeX package at https://ctan.org/pkg/qrcode, written in pure LaTeX. Makes creating documents and templates with QR codes a breeze. Though, I'm sure most such printed documents are drafted using MS Word. :(