skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure that media NFTs have much merit besides being an alternative to things like Patreon/OnlyFans.

On the other hand I bought and traded many Magic the Gathering cards and people buy stamps, even if both are copied quite easily.

You can only view or listen to media NFTs "content". Here ownership doesn't give you much more "features". But I own non-media NFTs and here ownership gives me more "features".

I can change where my ENS domain is pointing and I can access a DAO community because I own these NFTs.
> Its just a hash

NFTs aren’t even a hash, they are a URL.
Picture two scenarios:

Scenario 1: Fed buys $20 billion of corporate bonds per month from Microsoft.

Scenario 2: Fed does not buy $20 billion of corporate bonds per month from Microsoft.

Consider all other things being equal, in the first scenario Microsoft's borrowing costs are drastically reduced. This means that Microsoft has more money. This means that Microsoft is able to hire more people, that the people that work for them get larger bonuses because they are typically tied to the profitability of the company.

This puts more money into real people's hands to buy toilet paper and golf clubs. That then multiplies throughout the economy. Suggestions for additional reading if you are really interested in these things:

1. Money Multiplier

https://www.albany.edu/~bd445/Economics_350_Money_and_Bankin...

2. M1 vs M2 money supply

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/moneysupply.asp

3. Fractional reserve banking

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/fractionalreservebankin...

4. Fed open market operations

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/openmarketoperations.as...
Of course, that doesn't mean that you allow straying too much out of the topic. Competitor's product that does it better? That's for your improvement, don't shut off critics. Geopolitics? Well, you need to draw a reasonable line sooner or later.
Note to self:

$ history | curl -d @- https://blog.jgc.org/NEWPOST

is a cheap way to create blog posts that are successful on HN.
A publicly-accessible search engine is an inherently political endeavor. It determines, to a great extent, what web pages people will read as a function of their expressed interests; and indirectly, heavily influences not just people's views but their sense of reality, of what's physically and conceptually out there.

Having said that - what the article describes does seem like a transition step from more back-room dealings by Google and its lobbyists to trying to create astro-turf public campaigns. Sigh.
or the other option - walk on the pavement, with your bike.
I like working with linux but linux as a desktop is still a nightmare outside of dev environment bubble.
The gut-level issue people have is a company gaining trust through creating a level playing field with algorithmic ranking, etc. and then slowly trading in that trust in order to create an ever larger moat around their monopoly.

The nefarious part is that Google pretends to still be an uninterested referee on a fair playing field. All the revelations regarding back door deals and anti-consumer activity makes it clear that they abandoned those principles in order to cement their monopoly and raise their rents.

And as for recruiting your happy customers into your cause -- there are many things we're fine letting non-monopolies do that make us very uneasy when monopolies do the same. Whether this should be one of those things is worth discussing and shouldn't be dismissed with an oversimplified straw man argument.
Still no news about 64-bit for some reason :(
This doesn't address the problem either. How do you know which platform the original author released it on? How do you verify who the original author is? The answer: by consulting a trusted external source. Which raises the question, if we're involving a trusted external source, why not just use that source to track the token rather than involve a blockchain? NFTs are a solution in search of a problem.
This is a bit off topic, but wrt working for an US company - US programming salaries are weird - it used to be a decade ago, that programming salaries were roughly in line with other domains in engineering, while most places required a STEM degree as well, meaning both engineering and CS employed roughly the same talent pool at similar wages. Imo, this estimation still holds in the rest of the world, but CS salaries in the US have skyrocketed, while companies opened up to the idea of hiring any enterprising leetcoder.
That doesn't ring true to me. My FFI experience is somewhat limited (JS to C, JS to C++ via C wrappers, Rust to C, Rust to C++ via C wrappers) but from what I've seen you have to speak C to make FFI.
gzip would seem to be a surprising runner up as its decompression cpu load is reportedly around 3-4 times as heavy as zstd:1 with a similar compression ratio.
I would not rule zstd out, it seems to better every alternative given the right level setting, except lz4 which is the outlier but fixed at a relatively low compression level.
As the high performing outlier it tantalisingly suggests room for improvements :]
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> It is not "nefarious" to enlist satisfied users of a product against legislation that could destroy the product.

You mean, like Tobacco companies encouraging smokers to complain about anti-cigarette legislation for example?
What you are searching is called a business intelligence application such as tableau, qlikview, Business object, Oracle bi and more.
The point is that ownership is a made up concept, albeit a popular one.

Also, it’s very complex and definitely not a clear cut. For example, you can’t simply process the plastic disk you bought, called Music CD, and share the output with everyone, you can get into real trouble.

You can buy a plane ticket but whether you can give it back varies and you can almost never sell it, despite owning it.

You can own one aspect of something and not the other, for example you can own the right to make toys from a character but not the rights to make a movie.

You can own a Databese in Europe but can’t own it in US. You can own software patents in US but not on the Europe.

You can buy a very old house in central London but you can’t demolish it just like that and build something else.

In some places men can own women, in other places white colored people used to own dark colored people.

In some places you are allowed to rent your body for certain purposes or inject whatever you want to yourself, in other places you can’t do a lot of thing to yourself.

Also, the way you acquire your possessions is not a clear cut. Purchase is a common one but you can get things by participating or organizing mass murder, a common practice known as “war”.

You can also acquire things through inheritance, a popular option but not a clear cut too because the inheritance rules can change depending on your gender, age, race, nationality and the jurisdiction.

You can own a Gmail or HN account that you never bought and can be taken away at any time.

As you can see, ownership is a complicated concept. You can’t really pin down a property of ownership and say this is the test to determine if you own it or not.

NFT is just another complication but this time enabled through international computer networks(traditional communities would create registers and institutions to deal with ownership management).
This is MS trying to bring back developers to their closed platform. I wouldn't touch this with a 10m pole.
I have no trouble helping and communicating with people remotely. Some days most of my time is spent helping others and it's a lot easier over the internet, since I can switch between people rapidly and have several conversations going at once.
As a person with ADHD, I hate the rule "no one is allowed after time" - unless it is a symphony. Plus, it often backfires - sometimes a crucial person is missing, and people need to wait, or the meeting makes no sense.

Still, starting sharp on time is essential. Once it is done often, people learn that they will miss important stuff when they are late. Allowing to start later often makes people show later and later.
I used to run systemd in WSL through https://github.com/arkane-systems/genie and it worked pretty well. Not sure about modules but I found compiling my own kernel with some more features (ext4 encryption support) pretty easy.

(That being said, I'm extremely happy to run Linux natively now and no longer use Windows anywhere)
When it comes to things like HDR, floating point scaling, hardware accelerated browser, DRM (netflix etc) it seems linux on the Desktop still "not there"
At least what I gather from user reports on /r/linux

Of course if you don't use any of these features it's not that big of a deal.

I'm happy with my windows 7 that got upgraded to win 8 that got upgraded to win 10 + wsl1. ~5 year old installation by now.
> “This is a great example of right-clicker mentality,” Midwit Milhouse said on Twitter. “Sure, you can make your own gold-coated steak for 65GBP, but then you don’t have the satisfaction, flex, clout that comes from having eaten at Salt Bae’s restaurant. The value is not in the cost of the steak. Go ahead, make yourself a gold-coated steak at home. Post a picture of it on Instagram. See how much clout it gets you. Salt Bae’s dish costs around 1500GBP because people want to pay 1500 GBP to show off that they can afford to pay that much. It’s all about the flex.”

Get me off this planet.
Cannabis Prisoner in MI – RUDI Gammo
In 2018 Michigan became the first state in the midwest to legalize the possession and sale of cannabis for adult use. 2018 also marked a historic injustice when a husband and father of three was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for his operation of a Detroit city-sanctioned medical cannabis dispensary. On this episode of Let’s Be Blunt, Montel speaks to Rudi Gammo by phone from the Michigan State prison, where he has now been incarcerated for 3 years and 8 months of his 5 1/2 year sentence for a victimless cannabis offense. Montel checks in with Sarah Gerston as well on Rudi’s case, General Counsel for The Last Prisoner Project.
It's not like they don't try to figure it out. But as you said:

>> "This effect is so real, large and standard that it's mandated by law to take it into account yet we understand basically nothing about it"

What would you prefer doctors do? Not use life-saving and life-improving treatments that are proven more effective than placebo after rigorous trials just because they don't understand it 100%?
>Please don't devalue and dehumanize your opponent and their contribution by calling them an edge case and a 0.001% outlier.

Why devalue or dehumanize?

I tend to view "being outlier" as something positive
I love it. It gives you 95% of what Kubernetes gives you for only 5% of the effort and complexity.
Creating highly profitable companies is the only reliable, repeatable scalable and publicly accessible method available for improving people's lives at a mass scale. You could even put exclamation marks after your "Wow" and it would still be literally amazing and he'd still be a good role model.
The important thing is that you never lose anything. An accountant may have messy stacks of paperwork all over their office but they always bundle them together.

I have an inbox for mail. I throw out junk and envelopes and put things that are important-but-not-actionable in a plastic tote in chronological order. Bills go in there after they are paid. (By me)

Every six months or so or when tax time comes around my wife files the papers. She gets depressed doing it, but at least bills get paid on time because I don’t get depressed about filing paper in real time.
I get the distinct impression that big, core chunks of AWS don't support IPv6, and where they do, it's very much a bolted-on second class citizen for which one should keep the expectations low.
For PowerShell, the command is:

h -c 10

As a nice bonus, you also get to see the runtime of those 10 commands, out-of-the-box.
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For a "cloud image" I have in virtualbox (so no gui) for testing cloud-init/ansible, about 15-20 seconds.

WSL1 takes about a second, and I'm pretty sure most of that is the init script that spits out network/update info.
I usually save things (not just Reddit comments, also HN etc.), generally speaking the bar of what I publish on my site is higher than what I may write in a comment. Sometimes I get around to polishing stuff, sometimes not. Other times it's just too specific to really publish on my site.

Finding stuff in the chronological list takes forever.
> desktop Linux is a pile of burning garbage.

Purely subjective. I personally think that Windows is a pile of burning garbage, YMMV obviously.

My own desktop linux experience in the past ~5 or so years has actually been better than my Windows experience. Nowadays, I use a mix of Linux and OS X with a lot more time spent on Linux[1] and I'm very happy. The only thing I consider perhaps installing Windows for some day is games, but between SteamOS and Proton, even that is very low on my priority list and if I did want to do it, I'd probably install it in a VM with GPU passthrough rather than running it directly.

I've been using Linux in various capacities (at home, not just on servers) since maybe 2006 or 2007, sometimes as my primary system, sometimes dual booting, sometimes in VirtualBox, but I've pretty much switched away from Windows entirely (last time I had a Windows install was 2015) and while I have a Macbook I use, my primary machine is a Dell XPS running Linux. I wouldn't even consider using Windows anymore, I've never been happier than when I left it behind for good.

> If you folks like spending your free time configuring Linux

I see people who don't use Linux say this, but its just not true. I spend exactly zero time configuring Linux, outside a half a day of initial setup (which, when I used Windows, is also how long I'd spend setting that up after an initial install) and much of that is largely because I can configure it to suit my particular tastes, not because I have to, outside installing a some stuff from the package manager (but again, I'd have to install the software I want on Windows too). Sure I spend more time on the commandline doing this than you might on Windows, but I prefer the commandline so it feels largely a choice rather than a necessity. I spent just as much time "fiddling" with drivers and settings on my last install of Windows as I have with my current install of Linux. I actually have a very low tolerance for dealing with shit not working.

> I don't wanna debug the OS in my free time

I've had more bugs in my last year of using Windows than I have in my previous year of using Linux. I've had to debug more Windows issues on family members laptops than I've ever had on my current Linux laptop.

I personally don't want to deal with all the live tiles and advertisements that Windows had on my mothers laptop. With Linux, I have nothing that I don't want (and if a distro installs stuff I don't want by default, its usually trivial to remove).

[1] As of about 2 years ago, prior to that the split was reversed, but that was largely due to my work at the time.
WSL2 can still communicate across file-systems, though it's not particularly advised. For that specific task WSL1 is probably faster.
The LA port issue is mentioned in the article and seems to be severely misunderstood. I work with one of the senior attorneys of the Port of Los Angeles in my side job. The primary problem there, and Long Beach and many other ports, isn't anything economically driven at all. It is lost space. Even more specifically it is vendors not retrieving their containers because its cheaper to leave the container on the dock and store it in their own warehouse.

So the moment a graduated price hike was introduced for container parking (just very recently) one of the major US vendors conveniently found warehouse space for 5000 of their containers sitting empty on the LA docks. Think about this like using airport parking for your car as opposed to metered parking on a street in front of your house (everyone's house) and until recently the airport parking was substantially less per day.

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I would have loved for the article to focus more on housing, because I see that topic frequently come up on HN from people on the west specific, especially San Fransisco, and they always get this subject incredibly wrong to fit their localized price/inventory dynamics in way that falsely equates to buying candy bars or fuel.

Here is a deeper exploration of housing using data: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28974793

In short, supply trails demand. In high growth markets, which is not San Fransisco, the frequency of demand for a fixed asset versus the speed of supply is almost solely responsible for shaping the product definition.
I wrote a [similar post](https://btao.org/2021/09/09/npm-install-is-curl-bash/) recently, and I think it's worth sharing this part:

> When installing an untrusted package, run `npm install` or `yarn add` with the `--ignore-scripts flag`. If, like me, you tend to forget this, you can set npm/yarn to never run scripts with `{npm,yarn} config set ignore-scripts true`.

This disables install scripts, which is a primary attack vector for malware on npm. It also breaks some packages, though, but I've had this setting on for a while with no major problems.
I made for for a use case where an existing central database server can be used by several instances of Books, kept up to date using a cron script. This reduces external network interactions and makes it possible to search the database when the external network connection happens to be down. It uses mysql to keep things as simple as possible, it would of course be possible to use another database engine but that would necessitate a conversion of the libgen dumps (which are nothing but mysql dumps). Since there was a mysql instance running anyway this seemed superfluous but as said, it is quite hackable so if you feel an urge...
Risking children to protect the elderly. That is a broken model, IMO.
Solar is an excellent replacement for home heating oil during the Michigan winters.

The vast majority of people in Michigan are already connected to an extremely efficient distribution network for electricity. The marginal cost of delivering additional energy through this network does not round to zero, it is zero. Meanwhile heating oil is delivered by trucks with a large cost in depreciation, labor, and fuel (further fossil fuels burnt in support of a system which was designed to make economic sense with <$10 oil). Whereas domestically produced oil can never drop below $40-50 a (marginal) barrel at the refinery, and imported oil never realistically below $30 + the cost of fighting forever wars for resources, there is a clear and feasible convergence of the marginal cost of solar energy generated in the Southwest US to $0. All this would make solar a viable replacement even without the role of heat pumps, which reduce the raw energy cost of heating with solar to around 20% of that of burning fuel.
> the CTO jokingly gave him a plaque emblazoned with the words “Scientifically Accurate But Practically Useless.”

...Until it isn't and it gets your stuff done. The best CTOs I have ever met were far more superficial in how they treated their issues than the best engineers were about theirs (perhaps a sign of being focused more/only on the bigger picture?).
We are far from infinite growth, no reason to worry. Maybe 10x or 100x should be enough to get everybody to stop worrying about food, housing, working? Then we can argue about slowing down.
I am not sure the US is overvaluing US talent, I am undecided there...

The average salary of a millenial is $47k a year, average millennial household makes $71k. The average mortgage payment in the USA is $1,487 ($18k over a year). So 25% to 38% of salary right? I think I did that right but feel free to clarify. Seems doable right?

I think the USA is a mess, especially for millennials but when you look at the housing market in Europe for average salaries we are doing really well overall:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/237529/price-to-income-r...

Very few people immigrate from anywhere. It is very hard. I don't think people leave because of corruption, my point being they have higher levels than the USA: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2020/index/nzl
Platform fee of 2.5% doesn’t seem that different from the fees the payment processors you listed charge.
My experience has been different. Ive found it difficult to find senior people. Junior and mid level people abound, but there are precious few qualified seniors.

I think it's the nature of the market. There isn't as much demand to outsource senior roles, so the market just doesn't produce a lot of them.
By my estimation, even factoring in the cost of living, medical insurance, tax differences etc, people working in the Bay area are taking home twice what an equally qualified dev would take home in say, London.

If anything the contrast is even more stark across the EU
How is this particular instance "corruption". The guy violated US laws which Russia do not "harmonize". This is similar to a US-based person who is attacking Putin in the media. It's illegal in Russia, but would that make the US extradite him?
May: Rust “stackful” coroutine library (goroutine-like semantics)
I don't think it's down to the SIM. It's more they call help at the phone company and say "hi I've lost my phone, number 0123123. Could you transfer it to my new handset with another SIM in." Or similar. I had my one (with Three UK) transferred to some random fraudster this year. I got it back but it was a pain and potentially dangerous. In fairness to Google they didn't manage to get in to that.

Suggestion to phone companies: When receiving such requests email and text the user saying "we've had a request to transfer your number, contact us if not you" rather than just cracking ahead.
Steam manages to have digital trading cards without blockchains. And I'm pretty sure pokemon and magic the gathering do too, although I am less familiar with them.
Whilst there is definitely a security risk with high value digital goods, I'm not sure that it is solved by the blockchain.
Great, now do that for Windows.
And unless the artist actually signed the print, it's probably fraud.

Is it even fraud if the artist didn't actually... what even? the NFT?
Peesumably if Nvidia went out of business then eBay would just stop enforcing having it.

But otherwise there's no advantage compared to a traditional database that I can see...
A lot of buying decisions is focused on “bragging” rights.

That’s why paintings from dead artists are usually worth more simply because the supply is finite by definition.

Even all the clothings of Versace the designer were snapped up right after his death and that is not even “art”.
Personally I don't think it's nefarious for Google to advertise to their own users, if they are honest.

But if they are publishing astroturfed propaganda, as the article claims, I find that nefarious no matter who their audience is.

> In the same vein I don't think it is very newsworthy that they fund sources they cite. Why wouldn't they?

Obviously they would never say "According to a study we paid for...", because no one would believe it. But it's still a study they paid for, and hiding that fact is meant to make it more credible. It's deceptive.
Thank you for the thorough response.
Create a "new way" to monetize gaming by... selling games? That's not new, and that doesn't require a blockchain. Even if your goal is to further empower IP and impoverish consumers by obliterating the doctrine of first sale by parasitically taking a cut of every re-sale, you could just use a database for that.