skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That just looks like a complete clusterfuck of bad design, code and decisions.
That the database has been implemented as a ledger does not make it "not a database". And since you don't own the database, it belongs to someone else. In the case of (almost) every cryptocurrency, it collectively belongs to the miners.
I have considered this. However it seems nonproductive because it just encourages me to give up. Better to assume it's possible and try.
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I can't recommend Blokada enough.

It won't solve your privacy problems but sure will block a lot of apps from sending info to their masters.
I'm also slightly disappointed by the decision not to support git, but honestly it doesn't really affect productivity.

You have two interfaces to the version control system: one native, that evolved from Perforce, and the second one based on Mercurial, which is pretty similar to what can be done with git.

At some point there was a decision to be made whether to support Mercurial or git, because they have very similar feature sets. I don't quite know why they made the choice they made.

To clarify, all of this only affects the client side of the VCS. It is not really possible to use either git or Mercurial for repository storage without some major trickery.
How _could_ an NFT give me exclusive access to a Discord channel? I see how it could let me read some sort of access token that I could use, but I dont see how it would prevent others from seeing/using that same token, particularly those who have previously owned it.
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It's also taking down other services that depend on VMs spinning up e.g. builds in Pipelines: https://status.dev.azure.com/
Wrong.

I can sell you stars on paper too. Exactly the same. It all depends on the underlying agreements.
I have never worked in Texas or California, but my career started in 2001, and I've worked for 13 different companies.

Most of those companies have been in the upper Midwest - either South Dakota or Minnesota. My latest employer is based out of North Carolina.

Interesting that you assume my experience is invalid because it doesn't match yours.
Before the 20th century technological advancements, when you bought a piece of art you not only owned it, you were in control of who gets to actually see it.
Software engineering is a process of design/discovery. So it is often very hard to say how long something is going to take. For example a 'simple' change could unearth a bug in a third party library that ends up taking days to work around.
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Space ships and virtual property is virtual property, at least you got something. Something to look at maybe, something that distinguishes you in game?

NFTs give you NOTHING. They don't give you the right to anything. All you own is a (hopefully) unique cryptographic sequence.
> Same with NFTs. It’s clearly a bit of a game and joke - I don’t think anyone is actually being scammed by it.

Except people are getting scammed out of large amounts of money.

For example the Evolved Ape scam that broke last week. Or artists that have their work minted and sold without permission. People pumping the value of their assets through wash trading. And so on.
> (especially at current iPhone 13 price points)?

iPhone prices have been fairly steady for the "regular" models:

* https://www.gsmarena.com/price_history_of_apples_iphones-new...

Apple did introduce 'flagship' models with the iPhone X, but the same year they also had the iPhone 8 which was on the same trend line as the iPhones 4S to 7.

And to speak of the "iPhone 13" is kind of vague: you have the 13 mini 128GB at US$ 700, and the 13 Pro Max 1TB at $1600. On introduction, the 3G 16GB was $700 and the 4S 64GB was $850:

* http://www.asymco.com/2021/09/21/the-most-important-iphone-e...
For that they have to have the rights to actually replace tcpdump, so it is already owned anyway.
They did not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28846569
It's absurd that the devices they make you have to sit in front of to use, the laptops and iMac have TouchID yet the devices you can use laying beside you in bed, on a table or rotated have FaceID.
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When money laundering, you're not only hiding the origin of the money, you also want to have a good explanation why you have it.
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It's hard to do a quantitative study on something that has inherent deniability. The ones who could map the flows (centralized exchanges, which are de-facto tumblers), will obviously not publish public studies on this.
To brute-force a specific 64-bit ID, sure. But if your only requirement is that the ID consist of two random characters, then a run of one character, then a run of another character, the time can be cut dramatically, since there are tens of thousands of 8-byte sequences that fit this pattern, and you can simply stop as soon as you find one of them.
Keep in mind as far as I can tell there's a $1.44 fee for an external IP address (only if it's in use by a preemptible VM). If it's not in use, it's even higher.
Hi, I’m an NFT collector. A bunch of my friends are too.
You can follow the answers to the announcement on the mailing list here: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/...

TL;DR: the author has working code for a CPython 3.9 implementation that gets rid of the GIL, works with most C extensions (albeit requiring to compile them again), and with better perfs _including_ for single threaded programs.

The report is worth read, very clear, professional, and humble, which for such a complex achievement, is quite a thing by itself.
There's some truth in what you say. But then same also applies to a lot of tech startups for instance (we could pick many but let's say Thaneros)... in fact it's true of the wider financial system. Just check out the latest HSBC news in the last week.

The problem is that people find it easy to jump to "money-laundering! beanie-babies!" and not spend the time thinking about what they might want to do with the tech. Strikes me as a bit curmudgeonly versus the optimistic, open-minded and innovative roots of HN...
I don't know if it's in the article but I remember the authors saying something about being able distinguish between livestock and human feces given the compounds.
In these cases though people are buying the art not for the sake of actually owning the art but for another use that it's high value provides them. Which is an apt comparison to NFTs because they mostly seem to be used for speculation.
I'm using cheap Contabo servers and they've been surprisingly reliable for the price they ask. Their €5 offering (excluding VAT) comes with 4 cores, 8GiB of RAM and either 50GiB of NVME storage or 200GiB "ssd" storage. That's a lot better than anything I can find elsewhere.

The only problem I've found is that unlike most VPS providers, they don't seem to do gigabit speeds in their cheaper tiers. I'm content with the 100mbit offering (which is 200mbit if you sign up these days, I think) so that's not a problem for my use case.

If you only run very basic stuff (basically a raspberry pi in the cloud) then Oracle offers two VPS servers for free (not "free for a year", "free with a purchase", actually "free forever", which was a huge surprise to me). You get very little in terms of performance but for a website or small project that should be sufficient.
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> A nation is a community of people with a common culture, language, ethnicity

Nitpick: The belief of the existence of the said common ground is actually more important than its actual existence. France is considered a nation state even though there are several ethno-linguistic groups in France. A few illustrations:

- less than half of the French population during the French revolution spoke French as their native language.[1]

- The second Nobel Prize of Literature from France (Frédéric Mistral) didn't wrote its work in French, but in Occitan[2].

- My family has lived in France for as long as genealogy could trace back, yet half of my great-grandparents only learnt French in school, they didn't spoke it at home.

[1]: I don't have an online source for that, nor the exact figure: I read it in Frernad Braudel's L’Identité de la France

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occitan_language
That's a very vague and non specific accusation.

Presumably because your facts aren't actually facts and if you stated what facts you thought they were ignoring, someone would point out that you're wrong.

But yes, let's all hope together that governments around the world don't ignore basic facts when dealing with this or any other issue.

We'll just quietly disagree on what the facts actually are, because hey they're only facts, nothing important.
Same influencers that flog the grind culture, selling vitamins one minute and NFT’s the next.
So the Linux is forcing you to use proprietary version of SW? That's wild.
You sign a message containing your Discord username with the address that's registered as owner of said NFT. The bot then approves your Discord account, while also watching for changes in NFT ownership to revoke your access if you transfer the token out.
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Other books that focus more on action steps?
There's more of tangeable value from buying property in virtual game worlds in the sense people get to use those property or items when normally in the game they would not be able to.

For things like ship preorders on Star Citizen it's much more of a risk that the value will ever be delivered but it's still offers more than just a note of ownership of an abstract token on a blockchain sequence.

If someone decides to honor these tokens as proof of ownership of property/items in the real world/ a virtual world then they may offer some value but there's a very great risk that will never happen.
The implementation is usually cryptographically signing a message from the account that owns the NFT.
>Like all crypto scams, the essence of the NFT grift is in recruiting new believers by convincing them a blessed database is an authoritative registrar of value. Just like star naming the grift isn't about utility it's simply a shared delusion in a get rich quick scheme.

I think this gets to the core of why so many people (like the entirety of Hacker News) seem to irrationally hate NFTs, to the point of posting about it almost every day instead of just ignoring it.

There are shared delusions that are useful as social coordinating forces. Religions are generally this. Social justice is this. And crypto is also this. I find that a lot of the irrational hatred for NFTs and crypto in general tends to come from people who hold certain shared delusions and who don't like that another competing one is so successful at coordinating behavior.
floating app windows would be better, but thats going to be a lot more complicated than virtual desktops. I just want a multi monitor setup without the monitors.
please read the entire comment, not only the beginning (forgetting for a moment that it's from 2013, 8 years later the situation might be different):

"Certainly I don't want large amounts of our content to be distributed this way, but an occasional posting that puts an LWN article at #1 on HN is going to do us far more good than harm."

You specifically have done this at least a couple of times recently.
Picking successful long term investments is highly knowledge/conviction/skill based. Picking winners consistently is very doable for a good investor.
He took fox out of the news channels he’s calling out for Jan 6? This seems more setup than their whistle blower conspiracy
You too can use the classic fudster starterpack:

-- it has no use

-- it is used by criminals

-- tulips
The tricky thing, I've found, is putting context to the words. Otherwise it feels like receiving a random word for no particular reason, and that makes it hard to remember or learn to use properly.

It's fine for cognates, like a French speaker receiving English words that are nearly 1:1 the same.

But if you're a Korean speaker or something, you might have a lot more distance to cover to actually parse the word/meaning and start using it correctly.
If you think of Cryptopunks (or whatever) as a game then buying one gives you as much or more in the context of the game as buying a skin or a plot of land in the context of another game.

>Something to look at maybe, something that distinguishes you in game?

You pretty obviously get that here, too. I honestly don't see why you'd think it gives you less other than out of general dislike for NFTs.
People are still saying this about cryptocurrencies too.

Many people also say EVs and green energy are a scam.

People also frequently accuse public companies of being scams or trash (there's a certain intersection between the previous sentence here).

Healthy skepticism is a powerful weapon of thought. But you have to be able to acknowledge where skepticism ends and stubborn refusal to accept reality starts.

Humans value certain things. They may not be the same things you value. That doesn't necessarily mean they're just "a giant scam".
fair enough although

Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate.

sounds very different to me from HN, one of the most trafficked tech news aggregation websites
> fraud

Link?
When people quit drugs, they need something to feel the void it leaves. It's one thing to stop consuming, but it's another to replace it with a meaningful activity.

I feel the same about tackling internet addiction. The computer is off, now what?
It could not effectively save chat logs. The thing ate up megabytes of xml for hello world.
Most of these arguments apply to recently produced art in general, don't they? Historical art is a little different, being a kind of combination of antiques and arts.

Art also has no intrinsic value. Art is also used for money laundering. When you buy art, you don't own the copyright, you just own the original production. The copyright owner can continue to manufacture prints and reproductions, but they are worth a fraction of the original. If it were possible to create one, an exact atom-for-atom duplicate of a piece of art would likely also only be worth a small fraction of the "original".

Even weirder, nowadays, much art doesn't really have an "original" as it was produced electronically in the first place - so what does owning the original even mean? Is it really an original, or is it just a blessed instance that everyone commonly understands as the one with value?

Arguably NFTs distill the essence of art ownership into its core proposition: you become the owner of intangible that is commonly understood by all market participants to truly represent the artwork and is valued as such.

The NFT market is odd, but the art market is odd in general.
You just don’t. Misinformation can only be stopped by individuals and you can’t stop it without infringing privacy or engaging in censorship which is as bad as misinformation.

I agree with Durov’s approach.

> Every few decades there is a drastic change in how we view important societal and scientific problems. What used to be a ridiculous idea yesterday can become the predominant opinion today, only to turn into an obsolete notion tomorrow.
In the history of human beliefs, change is the only constant. Most people living in 1921 shared views that today are considered quaint at best, and dangerous at worst. The chances that our present-day convictions will remain relevant by 2121 are slim.
In fact, we won't even have to wait 100 years, as the speed of change is accelerating. A good example is how quickly humanity changed its mind over the origins of Covid.
Just a year ago, the idea that the virus originated from a Wuhan Lab was dismissed as a conspiracy theory. Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms blocked posts promoting the lab leak theory. Today, however, this theory is on its way to becoming the mainstream scientific view of how the virus originated.
Such instances make combating fake news and misinformation particularly challenging. They can also fundamentally undermine people's trust in the neutrality of social media platforms, and jeopardize future efforts to fight misinformation.
Telegram never blocked posts discussing the lab leak theory, because we didn't think it's our role to decide for our users what they should believe. At the same time, we felt that our users had the right to be informed about Covid by official sources that reflected scientific consensus. That's why we worked with 19 governments to help them reach out to every Telegram user in their countries with up-to-date information on the pandemic.
Today we call upon more governments to join the Telegram anti-Covid initiative to make sure more people around the world get access critical knowledge that can save lives.
In my 20 years of managing discussion platforms, I noticed that conspiracy theories only strengthen each time their content is removed by moderators. Instead of putting an end to wrong ideas, censorship often makes it harder to fight them. That’s why spreading the truth will always be a more efficient strategy than engaging in censorship.
That is the coolest invention I have seen all year. Bravo!
I have to admit, I'm still a bit biased against Taylor because of the Jetstream fiasco, but it seems it's getting harder to justify those feelings. Thanks for refreshing things.
Israel is EVIL. This needs to be stopped. Prostitution of foreign women is legal and ongoing in Israel. Jewish women are not allowed in synagogues (discrimination and gender separation).
It's not possible to behave in ways that won't eventually be seen as barbaric by somebody in the future, unless you simply don't do anything worth recording. It's ridiculous to act as if somebody did something wrong for making a suggestion that didn't pan out.
> The technical term I prefer is "basic human rights".

If that's what you're going with, please keep in mind that basic human rights include right to health, and your refusal to comply with basic health and safety precautions violates "basic human rights" of everyone around you.

So, your argument isn't really about "freedom" but this false sense of entitlement where no rules or obligations should apply to you while the whole world should be forced to accommodate your whims.
How can we get this guy some major funding to develop his ideas?
With NFTs, another warehouse can also note that the art belongs to you and you have equal legal rights to enjoy and sell the art as the original owner.
The classes of the militia are—

(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and

(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia.

Members of the militia are "all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and,... under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.""
I'm so waiting for somebody selling pieces of the moon as NFT, like the good old 1900 scams.

They already redid the million dollars home page, NFT edition.
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I don't know of any household appliances that as part of their regular functioning doses you with alcohol.

Or many household appliances that can reliably kill of your pets at all.

So I don't really get this nitpick.
No, I was sleep deprived and made a mistake. :p
That is a shallow way to look at conflicts if you think the issues are comparable. Some things are, but the overall conflict is not.

In the middle east the threat to Israel is of existential nature, even if that changed to the better in recent years.
The main difference between NFT's and stars is that people think they will get rich reselling NFT's but nobody thought they could buy a star and then sell it for more money.
It's pretty common to do this for Patreon rewards so it's not really much different to how you'd approach that except instead of connecting to their API it does it using the records on chain.

You'd run a bot or similar on Discord that would grant you a role to access the channel and it would use your wallet to verify your identity (ala public key crypto) and the ownership of the NFT by your wallet to verify the permission to join.

Most of the time you're a centralized thing anyway in this case so the NFTs don't really add much (unless you want users to be able to trade access) even if you wanted to take payment via crypto-currencies.
And if you want to play around with escape sequences from your shell, you can do so using `echo -e "\e[1A..."` in most shells (the `-e` flag enables backslash interpretation, while `\e` stands for the ESC character, alias `\033`).

Note also that (traditional) escape sequences cannot execute arbitrary code, so you can't really break anything that closing and reopening the terminal won't fix.
While not related, I have always thought it would be interesting to plot police hot spots from Waze data..
There doesn't seem to be any more information available anywhere else. Just based on what I consider to be a vintage camera, I suspect someone fixated on the owner of the camera for other reasons first before interpreting and reporting the images and the actual camera itself as a bomb.

The fact that the crew went with it instead of trying to discreetly observe what the person was fiddling with is annoying as well ... both from the perspective of the person unnecessarily detained and other people whose lives were disrupted.

> Pictured left: The woman and her kids were seated across from her spouse when she noticed another passenger next to her husband watching videos and pictures of vintage cameras

So, this person is sitting next to her husband, fiddling with a bomb, in her imagination, but her husband is completely unaware? Curious. And the flight crew goes along? Weird. Their behinds are covered since they have a "valid" excuse.

Update: Here is similar take[2] published an hour before I was making my comment:

> This incident raises so many questions for me. Firstly why didn’t the woman engage the man in conversation first, he may have been more than happy to show her how old cameras worked. Did the flight attendants even question the man and try to ascertain what the object was? According to Quartz airline personnel are trained to deal with such situations and make reasoned assessments when passengers report suspicious behaviour.

> ...

> Another baffling part of the story is that unless the man was somehow able to secretly hide the cameras inside his body cavities they must have already been thoroughly searched by TSA when he went through security. Any unusual looking device is almost pounced on these days by airport security ...

[1]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10078835/Passenger-...

[2]: https://www.diyphotography.net/vintage-camera-sparks-in-flig...
I’m going to call bullshit on everything you just said.

> the UK the government are claiming that the virus effects everyone equally

I haven’t heard anyone from the government say that.

> claiming all pregnant women need the vaccine because it's putting them at massive risk of the worst ventilator and yet the figures show just 20 pregnant women in the last 4 months needed the machine and the other 100 people were fully vaxxed.

Here is literally an article from a few days ago that shows 1-in-6 are pregnant women and that the vast majority have NOT had the vaccine.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/oct/11/one-in-...

You know what, forgot it. If this doesn’t prompt you to reconsider your sources, refuting every single point you made won’t either.
We see these accusations in such threads regularly and I'm sick and tired of it. I will stop posting LWN links altogether.

Congratulations, now go bully someone else.