skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the concept sounds neat and impractical, but I don't care much about it.

The implementations get me a bit angry.

They enable criminals to extort and launder funds.

They've led to massive profits for speculators at the expense of ignorant people throwing their own money into the bubble.

They haven't benefited the average person at all.

Bitcoin wastes monumentous amounts of energy, raising the price for everyone else and further polluting the earth; it has wild value fluctuations, making it completely unusable as a currency; and it has no underlying value.

Then NFTs aren't even really ownership. You're buying the right to record a ownership of a hash. It just makes people feel like they own something unique. If you actually want to buy a digital assets without an intermediary, you contact the creator of a work and have him e-sign a contract giving you the copyrights in it. Boom. No need for a intermediary like OpenSea to skim its 2.5% off the top like NFTs do in practice, and you actually gets real rights in the work. People just don't do that because they don't want to actually give up something of actual value, they just want to rip people off, and because it's boring. NFTs are just a fad.
Walmart and Target do it too. Insert card, supply an identity to go with the frames the camera is capturing. Do that a few times and you've got a training set to identify an individual.
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Why is this telescope so small? [video]
I assume they meant a 5 server control plane supporting 13k worker nodes, not that they partitioned 5 large hosts into 13k smaller ones. It's a counterpoint to GP's "raft gets slow with more servers", I think.
While they are not completely divested, self-interest mandates that they still hype what they try to get out of. And after that, they simply don't care and pride discourages them from being vocal about their apparent change of heart. Some might be good at spotting, but they will be excellent at staying quiet about their conclusions.
It's a digital certificate that is already being used to represent ownership of things like artworks. Not a theory, an active reality where they already serve a useful purpose.

Just because scammers jumped all over it, and even if most NFTs are scams, that does nothing to overwrite the fact that there's a useful technology here, albeit with a niche purpose.

The problem is that people are using the hype to scam, that's human behavior, not an issue with NFTs themselves, which are just boring certificates.
The claim:

> They are on their third required booster shot.

The source you provided:

> To be considered fully vaccinated in Israel people must meet one of the following criteria: be 12 or older and have received a booster shot at least a week ago; be within six months of having received a second vaccination shot; or be within six months of having tested positive for Covid-19.

You are not a serious person.
I personally see lots of value and potential for smart contracts. The current NFTs making news for the highest transaction price are are terrible examples of that value and appear to be scams - they provide no significant value. It looks like speculation and greed without significant additional value. The only additional value I have seen so far appears to be the equivalent of a country club membership when you buy certain NFTs.

I suspect there will be more opportunities for NFTs to change my mind in the future with governance, but that risks them stepping into SEC governed territory.
MacBook on Desk Mockup
It was a terrible quality car, but the 86 model was front wheel drive, not RWD. They were FWD from 1979 until the end.
> Who looks at video games today and thinks “what I want is to spend increasingly absurd amounts of money for in-game items”?

I think it is a generational gap thing. I myself (40 year old) play CS:GO quite a lot (I'm really bad at it as well haha), but don't care about all the stickers and other custom stuff that people buy there.

However, there's a huge market for those stickers. And there is people that really like spending money to "own" that stuff. I feel that my generation (X/xenials and older) don't have a strong sense of "digital property" (in the end, we grew at the time of napster, kazaa, edonkey, and downloading copies of anything digital. At the same time "games" were owned physically through NES, SNES, Gameboy, Genesis cartridges )

But for Millenails/Z, digital property comes more naturally and they "feel" the "ownage" of digital property.
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I bequeath to you digital ownership of this string. Let's imagine hn is an immutable forum. It represents a block of gold. What are you going to do with it?
At the bottom of this post, Dan thanks Jamie (the author of the other post). Dan’s been posting about the topic on Twitter as well. So basically they talked about it and both wrote up their takes.
I can almost promise you this won't happen - since star registries have no claim to the rights they're selling. Most star registries I've ever seen are purely about naming and just because a town is named Munkton and I'm the sole descendant of the original owner doesn't mean I have any implicit claim to any of the town land - even undeveloped city land is still held by actual entities.

I will grant it is slightly possible if we have a data destruction period between now and the 27th century. Claims to property after the nazis were overthrown could often be made by jewish residents with very little proof due to the fact that all the real proof was intentionally destroyed. But even those could end up extremely contentious. You can read up on Jewish Restitution[1] and you'll see a lot of really difficult cases that had to be dealt with.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_claims_for_restitution...
“ I think it's patently ridiculous to say that one gender is for some reason more interested in learning than another.”

You don’t think evolution plays a role in behavior?
The "charter of the government" is the difference between kidnapping and an arrest.

We've long since given up on the idea that anyone should be able to do whatever they want no matter who it harms.
> Wouldn't the same issues still exist at the geopolitical scale (where the wars are)?

Not as easily. In order to finance those wars, assuming Bitcoin renders fiat currencies useless (not improbable), those governments would have to create value, which governments are terrible at. There's a "pipe dream" element to this, but it's not _impossible_. Adopting Bitcoin at scale would put a serious handicap on the ability for governments to pursue conquest or harass their citizens under the guise of "authority." Their only option would be to invest in entrepreneurs and citizens domestically, focusing on being the best place to be as opposed to the ape with the biggest or most rocks (nationalism without the "seig heil!").

That's why I'm so hyper about it. As a civilization, we've never been in this position before so there are a lot of unknowns. At the very least, it would be a grave mistake to dismiss Bitcoin as a "scam" or "bad invention" or fall under the all-too-common spell of "the important thing is the Blockchain technology" (false because you can implement highly-controlled blockchains which recreate the same problem).

The book The Sovereign Individual (interestingly written in the 90s) explains this idea in a more articulate/elaborate way.
You don't need to write a bunch of JS, that's why JavaScript frameworks like React exist to make this easy. JavaScript is the only client-side scripting language on the browser that you can use to manipulate the DOM. If you want to locally CRUD without making a round trip to the server- you have two options- manual DOM manipulation, or use a JavaScript framework. That idea that HTML streaming will replace JS frameworks and REST APIs, and is easier and less problematic than a JS framework, is preposterous to me.
found this post about the duberger scale model via a recent thoughtbot article on modeling[0].

[0]: https://thoughtbot.com/blog/models-that-match-reality , which i would qualify as being fairly basic and which in turn was found via https://rubyweekly.com/issues/574 .
Sometimes plans don't work out (and/or circumstances change), and changing them is the sensible thing to do.

(I don't know details of this specific case, and whether/why the plans and decisions made sense at any given time.)
It's not, actually. Minimizing RCS hits a hard, unavoidable wall once the wavelength of the radar is close to that of the object. So it's a matter of getting large wavelength radars that are accurate enough.
Ask HN: What does YouTube look like from a clean slate?
It's beyond my expertise, I can't generate a state which simulates a clean slate, except buying a new phone and registering a new google account along with it. And barely then, I'm sure they catch on very quickly.
While not strictly incorrect, for those of us who do find it weird to see, can you change "less" to "fewer"?

> Oh no! Your search returned no
results. Try entering less ingredients.

Anyway, very cool!
mRNA as a vaccination route has been studied for quite a while. It's considerably less invasive than other conventional vaccines.
You are missing the fact that people who aren't hyped about crypto don't see it as a feature or a reason to switch launcher.

Epic hinged on being able to bring in tons of costumers to the Epic Games Store using Fortnite (A bigger than big hit), but they have not really managed that.

Just like that, a crypto-friendly games store wouldn't be able to bring in enough costumers, even with a really big hit, to touch even the amount of people the Epic Games Store has gotten (freebies definitely helped them).
This sounds a lot like letting Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC to "continue under new management" in order to be less disruptive.
What we can learn from “_why”, the long lost open source developer
If you run a fast food joint and someone leaves during a shift without clearing it first, they are likely to be fired. If they distract the cashier, fry cook and grill and they end up leaving it is likely all of them will be put on "no rehire". It is your right to freely protest, but your company isn't obligated to keep you.

Customers have more power than employees. If you don't like what Netflix is doing, stop paying them.
You mean games that have been doing just fine with just usual microtransactions? Sure big publishers are going to throw that away and switch to NFTs because... Why exactly?

Are there any surveys or something on how much gamers care about NFTs in their games? Because if there's no such data I can't think of a single reason for publishers to care about this.
An nft can map to anything. This mapping is up to the implementer.

I can show an nft that represents a role, access to an event, a cross-game asset, as a property title, as a binding contract, rights to use intellectual property etc.
Might want to specify the platform. on macOS that's like 2 clicks in Preview.app.
Damping is generally a technique which reduces, slows, or restricts a system. It is not a synonym for dumping. We have old, related terms like the "damper" on a fireplace, which I suspect may invoke a more basic analogy of putting water on wood fuel, i.e. making it damp and slower to burn.

In modern usage, "damping" usually refers to a drag or parasitic affect in some oscillatory system, but it does not have to be oscillatory. It can be other drag effects that convert energy, with a usual assumption that it will bring the system to a new equilibrium. An object falling through the atmosphere can be considered to have its fall dampened by the air drag, converging towards its terminal velocity.

I am not familiar with all the physics involved in falling towards/into such a star, so I do not know if there are field effects which would cause damping of the fall prior to impact of the trash with an actual surface, similar to the atmospheric descent towards earth. I also wonder if they imagine the orbital system is being damped to allow the trash to impact the star, by bleeding off tangential velocity to decay the orbit.
So we can throw references at each other all day:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12512-women-may-be-ha...

I was just speaking from a parent who also thought it was cultural that girls preferred pink sparkly things, but then experienced parenthood and it's clear as day they do.

I'm sure there are lots of girls who don't care for pink...but so what if the majority do?
This isn't a new problem though. Anti-trust laws have been enforced previously without a strict definition.

"Although the courts "have not yet identified a precise level at which monopoly power will be inferred"[1]

[1]Section of Antitrust Law, Am. Bar Ass'n, Market Power Handbook 19­20 (2005).
Oh, I'm sure know that. YJIT is such a marvel of a technology!

I'm so happy for Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert to have such a resounding success with her JIT research after so many years!
I feel they keep missing the point here. New phones with old specs that don't even have the positives of the phone they're paying homage to.

Bring me an 8310 with 4G, WiFi hotspot and a little e-ink display. That's it. Then we're talking.

An opportunity to build a phone that isn't an intrusion on my life, and I can supplement with a tablet/smartphone when I need it.
There are projects[1] that are abstracting away the C extension interface in order to standardize C extensions across implementations and prevent breaking changes.

[1] https://github.com/hpyproject/hpy
I agree with all that broadly, but I would push back and say the Fed's responsibility wasn't to stop the subprime crisis. That was Congress' responsibility. It's not the fire fighters job to stop people building houses made of paper. That's the fire marshal, the city planning department, the inspectors, and so on.
Making slow Rust code fast
I think that's what GP meant; they wish it was RWD.
Endow a non–profit organization or create (and endow) a religious institution whose core doctrine is uptime of the web site.
It's best described as completely something else than Linux.

Mezzano is an OS and desktop environment written from scratch in Common Lisp (including a CL compiler). It is a hobbyist project with several contributors but with most of the work done by one prolific programmer.
It's crucial to distinguish between "client-side scanning" that reports to authorities and "on-device context"[1] that might use similar client-side/on-device technology to identify a piece of content—but does not either censor or report to authorities.

Different use case, same underlying technology. Former is often very problematic, while IMHO the latter is almost universally helpful (for where it is applicable; e.g. not CSAM, yes misinfo).

[1] https://aviv.medium.com/client-side-context-a-defense-agains...
Linear.app is a nice JIRA replacement/add on, raycast makes both available from alfred like launcher app.
Can Shopify Stop Sneaker Bots?
I don't think the objection you're actually making is valid (the extra atomic reference is just a representation of the fact that the local refcount is nonzero), but come to think of it, even in the original version, how the heck does a thread know whether a reference held by (say) a dictionary that is itself accesible to multiple threads was increfed by the owning thread or another thread?
Do you think anyone owns even a fraction of a bitcoin?
The original k8s codebase was Java, then rewritten in Go by Java developers.
K8s is not a good example of Go, and it has nothing to do with the size of the project.
This is not just about fraud. And I could wave the same stick at you - "I really think claims about illegal activity are intentionally swept under the rug by crypto shills." See how easy that is...
I agree that we don't need Chinese Communism but if you think a guy peddling right wing tropes is going to fix the problem then I got a bridge to nowhere to sell you.
Inconvenient to vaccine mandates & pharma lobbyists, so will we see it prescribed?
I'm not saying that this is either good or bad, I'm simply pointing out that this is not a "use case" of NFTs.
Not to mention, it's genuinely kind of sad that the author's idea of being part of the "in crowd" consists of which social network a person is using. I don't think many 40 year olds are under the illusion that they're part of the "in crowd" because they stay in touch with their grandmother on Facebook.

The ironic part about that sentiment is that the author is clearly well on their way to becoming the 40 year old they were making fun of - one who doesn't grow up and continues to rely upon social media to obtain affirmation.
That is a really weak argument though, Soviet and USA didn't share much culture during the cold war. Professors talking a bit to each other shouldn't affect the student bodies that much, and at the time most American influences were banned in Soviet.

So to me your explanation looks extremely weak. You can believe in that, but you wont convince me on this, there is just too much data in my favor. Of course the future could prove me wrong and I am open to that, but I'd argue that the data we have today strongly supports my stance.

Note, I am not saying that we should discourage women who want to enter these fields. That serves absolutely no purpose.
%100- I had a game in submission status "retired" this week because "NFT's"- the game is 45gb so its more difficult to find a place to host it/etc when its that big and have it make financial sense right now. Sort of the same with 4k video hosting. I know the problem will be solved eventually. But because of this as a dev I'm not publishing to Steam anymore.
Yup! IPFS address is a hash of the contents.
You can also use something like Rancher or k3s to keep it alive part-time.
At will employment was brought in to make sure organizers can be fired for organizing
Ah. I see. Must not live in a wintery place :)
Any recipe should have links to wikipedia articles or to a descriptions of every ingredient.

So many times it's something like "jus use crunchy arugula flour with prime undercut ribsteaks, and season with spring twigs of muffinballs"

The world is global. And 99% of the world has no idea what it is you use in that recipe.
Lots of NFT projects have gamification systems built around them; some include voting rights, others grant access to things, can be melded with other NFTs, provide FTs, so on. It's really the wild west right now and HN is completely out of touch.
The unlicensed offshore exchanges that use Tether to avoid USA banking regulation and AML/KYC don't let you cash out real money. You have to buy crypto and hope that they let you transfer it out before their real asset reserves run out. Now that people have the data that Tether has <5% in cash reserves it's a race to get converted into BTC etc and get it out before the insolvency stops everything.
Fifteen years is a long time. I’m sure some HN users weren’t even born yet.

Not everyone needs to care about everything all the time. I would complain about JS in PDF too, but I don’t have a voice anyway.
Show HN: Multiple Imputation with Lightgbm
> to replace non-atomic reference count operations with their atomic equivalents.

Nope, my proposal still uses two reference counts (one atomic, one local); it just avoids having a seperate flag bit to indicate that the owning thread is done.
I disagree entirely. The last few releases of Python have made significant changes to the language, coinciding with the project becoming community-led after Guido stepped down.
Cabin also reduces drag, even if it might seem low. Combined with weatherproofing and general enhancement to protection in case anything comes loose, it simply makes sense to me.
i got a vps with 4gb ram and 4 core for $35/year
Yeah, agree. What I like in the current installment of Opera are its built-in WhatsApp, Telegram clients.
Mozilla developers at the time actually have other plans with the Pepper plugin support: Adobe Flash (since that Chrome's Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) is actually miles better and secure than the Netscape [-era - ed.] Plugin API or NPAPI).

They abandoned Mortar when Adobe have announced that it will retire Flash.

(Also, PDF.js is now a misnomer: it now mainly uses WebAssembly.)
There's actually quite a bit of science on toy preference in infants[1], but the existence of such evidence is routinely denied. The problem is that this has become a political topic.

I'm happy for all the women who choose to go into STEM, who enjoy doing that work, and who succeed. I still think that it's problematic to explain away the huge gender imbalances in STEM fields based on the idea that it's all because of oppression or social norms.

Consider the medical field. Those used to be very much male-dominated, but nowadays, there are more women graduating out of med school than men, and AFAIK, under a certain age, most young doctors are female. Women are also going into law at a higher rate than they are in CS. Law has a reputation for being macho and toxic as hell, but that's not stopping women from entering the field. Why do we blame the gender imbalance in CS purely on oppression, discrimination or social norms?

As far as there being more women in STEM during WWII than there are now, and that disproving the idea that there could be natural differences in preferences (again, on average, this is not absolute), and that somehow disproving the idea of sex differences in preferences... Many young men were sent to war during WWII and women were given extra incentives to enter the field. It wasn't exactly a situation where people were just choosing things based on their own free will. After WWII, you had a situation where a few million young men had died, and the women who were now working in those fields kept doing so.

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-019-01624-7
NFTs are not a copy of the art. On a technical level, they're hashes of the item for which you're paying to store on the blockchain. You can't get the original work from a hash, only verify the accuracy if you already have both. Then on a legal level, you do not give you any legal right to even view the art. The artist isn't signing you a license to copy the work, and, as described, a hash is not a copy for which such a license could be implied.

If you buy just an NFT and send the US registered artwork itself along with it to the buyer, that's copyright infringement, and the original artist could sue you for thousands of dollars.
It's impressive how slowly progress has been made on the firefox pdf viewer. They can't print out pages which aren't blurry from the viewer even though they've had 8 years notice: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=811002
Agreed.

Adding two common things also gives you 0 results (e.g. beef and rice).
What makes you think western government aren't already doing so - UK was, I believe, one of the first countries to be fully covered with camera and they use it extensively in policing the country.

1. Mass surveillance in the United Kingdom - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_the_Unite...

2. UK public faces mass invasion of privacy as big data and surveillance merge - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/14/public-faces...
Some NFTs point at images hosted in a traditional, centralized fashion. Others point to IPFS hashes which are basically permanent.
Cool! This is the kind of thing I've wondered about for a while. This looks like some handy info.

Is there an option to use a higher level language like Python and these QT libraries still? I don't have a ton of time to contribute, but this might be a way forward for me someday.

EDIT: Your 2nd link is literally what I was asking about, although it's using Gtk3. I'm not familiar with either in depth, so I'm not picky there. That's really useful. Thanks for this!