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Immaterial differences at best.

> The print is beautiful and hanging on my wall.

Physical: you can view it, it can be stolen.

NFT: you can view it, it can stolen.

> The print won't evaporate when the url suddenly points to a server that was shutdown from lack of payment.

Physical: might burn down/stolen, insurance + security + safety prevents that.

NFT: Host might disappear. Content-addressing solves that.

> I know I bought a print, nobody was trying to trick me into thinking it was the original.

Physical: You can prove you have it because you have it.

NFT: You can prove you have it because your wallet contains it.

> And, most importantly of all, the artist got paid.

Physical: Artist can get paid when it initially got sold

NFT: Artist can get paid when it initially got sold, and can take a piece of each resell thereafter.
I'd argue it's not dollar signs for variable names but dollar signs in variable names.
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It can run most unmodified Python code, but it needs types for the big speedups.
There's a huge aspect of speculation scam involved as well.
> your cons list for VS Code is in part wildly outdated and in part flat out untrue.

What's untrue about it?

Not disagreeing with you, just am not in a position to test it myself (yet). I JUST managed to get VS Code installed, and am trying to run it for the first time, as I type this...

> ... bust out VS Code when I need to browse a web codebase for whatever reason.

Makes sense. I'll just go ahead and believe you on this, because I don't know what a "web codebase" is, how it might differ from a normal one, and hence benefit from whatever specialized tooling VS Code has for that. Does "web codebase" mean any interactive webapp, with HTML, JS, CSS, and some language or UI framework combined? I wouldn't be surprised if VS Code is superior out of the box for those sorts of things, if it's designed for them.

> It's a very performant application. It can grab all the keybinds it needs and my install with a handful of addons doesn't burn CPU doing nothing and is just as snappy as emacs.

We'll find out won't we! I now have VSCode running for a comparison. "just as snappy" is far from true, but I admit, it's far more responsive than when I tried it before. Possibly even usable.

I like the seamless integration of extensions! The need to "pick a folder" just to open and compile a single file seems a bit unnecessary, but a small annoyance. But I stand corrected, this is not nearly as bad as I expected. Once I can make it use emacs key bindings, and tweak it enough to have less "policy requirements" it might be worth a peek.
It usually does work on individual small functions, in my experience.

I've seen 2x improvement on string processing code (cleaning text for input to a ML model) by doing nothing other than sticking `%%cython` at the top of a notebook cell.

I don't know if this technique scales to other applications; probably not. But Cython syntactically is a superset of Python.
Biden shutting down natural gas pipelines is certainly relevant and on-topic in a discussion of the supply shock and why, as you said, "Natural gas [is] extremely expensive".

Trying to bury relevant facts because they're politically inconvenient is trampling curiosity.
`sudo su -` is always a nuisance. As an individual developer I prefer to ssh as root directly. Even more, I use mosh and connect to hosts with something like `mosh root@host -- screen -xRR -D`.

Enterprisey server management tools issue short-lived keys that they push through backchannels to hosts. Hosts do not have users aside from system or applicaiton users.

Anything else is quickly becoming outdated.
I really miss the 90s internet. That CNN page was so simple, and loaded so fast! No paid and reload for ads.
So encrypt your second Linux drive otherwise Microsoft data harvesting might want to take a peek into it.
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I was thinking that everything’s been covered already. For instance, a book about Next would just be a rehash of “Soul of a New Machine”.

On consideration, I’d really like to know more about ‘97 to ‘07. You’ve got Jobs rejoining Apple, creation of iMac, moving to Intel processors, creation of the iPod, creation of the Apple stores, culminating with the creation of the iPhone. Those ten years with some incredibly gutsy decisions did change society. But I’d want this theoretical book to be about many more people, not just Jobs.
It all depends on your point of view (literally, frame of reference). The Earth can be considered:

- stationery (geocentric observer)

- orbiting the Sun (heliocentric observer)

- spiraling about the Sun (galaxy-centric observer)

All of these are simultaneously correct and bonkers in conjunction. Hence, you need a frame of reference if you're specifying movement.
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you can create nfts and have them minted upon sale, that way you dont have to pay anyone as its gasless. all you need is a signature, that doesnt cost anything.

its actually a really neat way to onboard users to chain without needing to go through a cex and spend money.
Learning to teach is like building a house
Sign the pixels?

No crypto expert but I was thinking something like this:

Artist decides to make a run of 100 copies of the work, and generates 100 work signing keys and generates a list of "1/100, work public key 1" etc. Artist then signs this list with their artist signing key, gets a signed timestamp, and publishes this somewhere on their site, along with the public portion of their artist signing key.

Artist then signs the (uncompressed) pixels of each copy of the work using the corresponding work signing key. Signature is embedded in the image file along with the work copy details, "1/100", say as a PNG chunk or similar.

NFT is created for the work copy, and I'm presuming there's something akin to a signature of the image file in the NFT to link them.

If you then get a NFT you can verify that the image file is indeed what the NFT refers to. You can download the work public key from the artist and verify that the public work key is from the artist, and then verify that the work (pixels) is what the artist signed.

Then again I don't know the domain enough so might be completely silly and or flawed idea. And obviously it requires a non-lossy image format ala PNG.
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"transparency and exposure" - I don't think it is kept secret, according to the article, it is the first thing that Google shows to its users.

I have nothing against commenting on that and writing critical articles. What bothers me is the framing as nefarious and evil, of a completely normal activity. Clearly Google has different interests than the author. That doesn't make them evil.

Of course the author is also entitled to consider them evil. I merely point out that it is ridiculous, or at least the argument is it evil because they enlist their users is ridiculous.

I am not even a fan of Google, I detest them for a lot of things.
I am sceptical. Reminds me of the predictions 20 years ago that outsourcing/offshoring would eliminate hands-on developer jobs in US/UK and other "expensive" countries.

Timezones, language factors, cultural factors, retention and exclusivity challenges plus basic logistics stuff like payroll and taxes all matter a lot. None of that's insurmountable but it takes a level of effort that can be very high.

And I say this as someone who quite likes working remotely.

I just don't see it disrupting the world in the extreme way it is sometimes portrayed.
Could be, but it only works in a non-adversarial context. Biological numerical instabilities are a tougher beast to tame.

When you have to simulate a big star you can do it quickly by approximating it by a sphere of a certain temperature. The bigger the star, the more the law of large numbers apply and the better your approximation get.

When you have to simulate a computer that would be the size of a star, you can't take any shortcut. And the amount of computation that a computer the size of a star would allow you to do according to the limits of physics is huge, and would allow to simulate the full universe many times (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_of_computation).

One way to avoid a simulation crash would be to introduce time-dilation effect to throttle the quantity of computation locally, but fundamentally it's a very hard problem equivalent to the halting problem.
He'll be remembered just as much as we remember the railroad barons; which is too say, not that much. Such is tech.
The latter two are correct (and likely most of your etc.), but pip is not official. pip maintainers only claim it is “PyPA recommended”, and PEP 453 is extremely careful to only say “officially recommended” (by CPython core maintainers). I told you this is pedantic!

Source: I am a pip maintainer and a PyPA member.
I really don't get the point of this just from the readme. It seems like an overly fanciful way to do something simple.
One of my favorite architectures is not anywhere real, but Morrowind (Elder Scrolls game). All cities are astonishingly beautiful. More, they all sort of fit together internally. They form a coherent style. Plus the interiors and the exteriors are both gorgeous and work together.

See Ald'ruhn: https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Ald%27ruhn,_Manor_Distr...

and Vivec (not sure I went there years ago): https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Vivec_City_(Morrowind)?...

The function of every building is clear from the outside, and it's clear they are part of the same picture/vision. Of course that's because the game designers made them all at once coherently.

So more than any style being particularly bad, I think We have mainly a lack of vision and coordination (the greatest problem of modern humanity). Each building does its own thing. So we over-regulate each building so they can't be too deviant (because there is otherwise no say in style). The result is jarring, boring, uninspired cities.

(See my proposal of a new economic system to address this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29043752)

A good start would be having communitarian, and maybe city architects responsible for (at least part of) every project in a certain region. Each neighborhood should be designed as a whole to be most coherent, functional (for everyone, not individually), psychologically well designed.
Are they? Looking at the homicide data from the FBI [1] handguns are by far the most common weapon.

1 - https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
The art has no value in digital space. I can even copy paste from wherever it's displayed, or take a screenshot, etc etc

The value is in a piece of blockchain which makes it speculation scam. That someone made money from a speculation scam doesn't make it less of a scam.
Monopoly is an exaggeration, but the US does still attract a staggeringly disproportionate fraction of developers from all over the world.
Brutalism somehow made it to the 21st century, and it's still popular. The only explanation I can find is that those architects have never lived, studied, or worked in those places. Personally they bring me memories of incompetent teachers, insufficient heating, and specks of dust I'd rather forget.
This doesn't match my lived experience, I've fallen in love with a person I've never had any lust for (and actively found unattractive when we first met). After falling in love the sex was just fine even though I wasn't physically attracted to them.
Steve Jobs is one of the most important historical figures of our lifetime, if not the most. Here is why. He broke the hold the carriers had over phones. In doing so changed the world and ushered in the mobile economy.

Remember back to pre iPhone days. Each carrier had their own version of the phone. That phone came with bloatware and a curated list of possible apps you may download … from the carrier. The carrier had total control and say of the phone, it’s functionality and the apps installed.

Imagine a world today where the phone App Store and phone function itself was controlled by the carrier. The carrier dictates if Uber or Lyft is available to “their” customers. Only certain banks or restaurants are available based upon agreements with the carriers.The carrier picks the winners and losers in this new mobile economy and the world is fragmented based upon your cell phone carrier.

Things we take for granted like maps, messaging and FaceTime would be additional costs you pay to the carrier.

Because of Steve Jobs and his vision, that dystopian carrier controlled world does not exist. The new mobile and gig economy is all because Steve Jobs had the vision to wrestle control from the carriers. Name one other person in the last 50 years that has had this much effect on the world and how society has changed.
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> But if your entire lens of what is happening in the country is news channels and the Internet, you need a reality check.

Not sure what your point is. How do you think people shape their opinions and perceptions on things if not via media and the internet?

What would this “reality check” consist of? I would move to the US for a number of years just so I can determine whether I want to move there? Should I read the collected works of David Foster Wallace?

It’s perception we’re talking about here. It doesn’t have to be rational nor accurate.
like -liberty in the gcc tree :)
> When you help a friend paint his house you usually expect that he returns the favor and that's not allowed.

I'm not sure that's true for "usually".
The number of people who believe that Moore’s Law is dead doubles every 18 months

-Jim Keller
That means you effectively have six months of immunity against speed trap cameras?
The NFT is a pointer to content (pointed by a URL). If the underlying content at that URL changes, the assumptions about the original NFT minting / first transaction change.

Bundling a cryptographic hash with the original NFT assertion of content accurately describes the content the NFT was intended to be minted for.

Example analogy: an NFT is like a receipt for a baseball card signed by a player. If the NFT is minted when the URL to the content points to a baseball card for Player A (popular player rookie card), but someone hijacks the domain or the URL and changes the content of that URL to Player B (no-name player who only lasted half a season in the pro league), that hijacker has performed a misrepresentation/fraud. The hash doesn't prevent the content swap, but it provides assurance that the content still matches the original intent of the NFT minting.
I think BDS is not a feasible strategy but I am firmly against silencing them in any way.

That said, ask some Jews what they think about such policies. Again, this isn't indicative of anything aside from maybe a misaligned strategy to shield minorities.
It's interesting to watch solutions and anti-patterns repeat in history ("the time-series of Reality").

Structuring data is an art and a skill. Perhaps not taught very well.

There is a low-cost solution: CSV, TSV, lines of text.

The high-cost solution is relational structure and servers.

In the middle range, with risk of expensive tooling and glaring anti-patterns, are XML and JSON.

The latter can both be used simply or with grotesque opacity. A some point, feeding the monster becomes a main activity of the village. At which point, the villagers elect a new monster with their shovels and pitchforks.
> Except they really don’t.

now that I've thought about it for a bit longer, I think you're right.

> I should not be able to copy-paste the digital artifact

no, because then the NFT would be exactly the same as the digital artifact, and they're not. that's the point I'm trying to make.

I suppose they fact that NFTs can be traded is what's so weird about them (and why my own argument fails).
Since both parties have to (supposedly) declare their expenses/income (if the value is high) in their retrospective countries, this scheme is as failsafe as just sending the transaction directly between the two of them.

In your example you have successfully transferred the funds between two parties, but you have not laundered anything here.
> I think you overestimate the reputation of the US and underestimate how much it has rapidly declined the last decades.

How has it rapidly declined? Please list the ways. I don't necessarily disagree, but I am curious.
Crypto has added a lot to aggregate wealth over the past 12m.
For example here's a Python project modified to work well on Cython - I think that's pretty substantially modified.

https://github.com/jameskmurphy/nes/tree/main/nes/cycore

It's more like a DSL for an FFI.
$ sudo rm -rf / === NPM install
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> some fortunate people are going to make billions when they nail platform which helps games to monetize NFT

AHA! There we have it.

I was wondering the whole time what this is about, because it doesn't seem to solve any problem other than being a convoluted trading scheme that costs tons of energy and resources.

It all seems to be a case of 'who bets on the right horse' but this time with a pollution bonus on top - right before a climate crisis.

People are frustrated with the economy and this gives them the feeling of being in charge of something promising. An escape so to speak. But in the end it's just a slightly different group that exploits them.
I don't really see the benefit over Nuitka, or even a JIT like Numba. Can someone help?
That's not Hacker News, it's Hacker Olds.
I suppose their "utility" is that they can be traded.
So with a self compiled kernel you can now use zfs on Windows? Neat
Yes, MySQL also has functions dedicated to traversing and selecting JSON
Your comment maybe implies that maybe Wall Street is watching from a distance. I think Wall St and large banks are deep into crypto, they have to be the cause of large swings in price movement, individuals rarely have $billions that can be moved around.

A financial market with zero regulation and full anonymity? I bet it has brought all sorts of normally illegal money movements and transactions to it. Even coordinated pump and dumps are 100% possible without legal repercussions, as far as I understand it.
Minimalism is cancer. It has stripped out the human element in favor of efficiency and cleanliness. It is the very definition of soullessness.
>This is just another gaming "UX" (cards, skins, features) for kids created from scammers.

As far as I can tell every one I see talking about or collecting NFTs are adults. I doubt you are looking at them honestly if you think they were designed to take money from kids. NFT art could be bad or good regardless but you seem motivated by your ties to the 'old way' based on your comment.
The only type of NFT that has both utility and value is a domain name.

Other than that, all other NFTs have no utility and are absolutely useless.
I think you're talking about the full universe of Apple products, while I was talking only about the specific things Ive enforced (like the touch bar). Now that Ive is gone, Macbooks are no-compromise machines again (if you ignore that they're difficult to repair).

> it's incredible that in this day, no company comes close in design and aesthetic

Lots of companies shamelessly mimic Apple, so there are plenty of smartphones and laptops that are equally nice to look at.

I think it boils down to your priorities, too. A lot of people still use and love hideous Lenovo Thinkpad laptops that are highly functional. They have the trackpad and the "nub" for a mouse -- something Apple would likely find appallingly redundant, but is the thing that makes people love Thinkpads.

On the other side, there are people who use aging Macbook Airs from years ago, even though they're incredibly slow.

But all this aside, what I'm saying that Ive did was make enforce design decisions that were hostile to users across the spectrum (again, Touch Bar and USB-C-only notebooks are the easiest examples).
You couldn't use two partitions on the same disk? A windows install itself makes three partitions, surely it could see another one.
somewhat similar to the Arango Query Language as well: https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/aql/
same for search engines. "which is the best mobile in 2021 " or even "how to take screenshot on laptop" to "how to get pregnant".
Sure, I also know people who have huge problems with their Google business listing.

Nevertheless it is normal for a company to call its users to aid against government regulation that would harm the product.

What other course of action would you propose for a company? Just give up and donate their business to the communist party?

If most users are unhappy with the product, it just means they will be unlikely to follow the call for action, which makes it even less of an issue to worry about.

What makes the article even more ridiculous, however, is calling on the statements by Yelp as witness for the evilness of Google. Yelp is actually known for shady business practices (asking for bribes to have bad reviews removed).
> no-one actually believes that is going to happen

That is the problem exactly. We do not listen to scientists, because it's more convenient to ignore it. And when their models become reality, we'll just blame them for it, as they "knew" and did not prevent it.
The only reason people sell NFT's is that "investors" pay a lot for NFT's even if it is completely stupid, because they think that other "investors" will pay much more for those NFT's later. It serves no other purpose.

This way you find that NFT's sell for much more than other micro transactions, and for much higher prices. And by "much more" I mean, non NFT's wouldn't sell at all since this isn't really a game.
Tons of people want to move to the USA for nature, stability, pay, freedom of expression, freedom of speech/religion/life, low corruption, house prices are low compared to many many places, mixing pot, opportunity, american dream etc...

The power of the American narrative is huge.

I know so many devs in Brazil who want to live to USA or Germany, as well as many other places. Those places have problems at a much higher level than our current stuff.
> I guess the reason is that you have decoupled ownership and the ability to sell that ownership, making it easier to speculate independent of legal domains like countries.

> Really, it's just adding a level of indirection, as always :-)

Yeah, that's basically how I see NFTs currently.
The one last thing that has kept me from moving all my development to Windows is mounting drives encrypted with `cryptsetup`. Does anyone know if `cryptsetup` now works in WSL2?
> every fake is a perfect digital replica

Besides the fact that each NFT has a unique ID, and if Gucci would start selling NFTs, they would make it trivial to see a list of their own produced NFTs. Websites to check authenticity would pop up and you would just need to enter the ID to check if it's real or not.

"Perfect replicate" except it's a clone with new ID, sure.
> low corruption

I’m sorry, what? Ask anyone in NYC what they think of the corruption. Ask them if they feel that the taxes they pay are put to a good use. Ask what they think of MTA, of the unions, of the mafia connections.

And ask any expat what they think of lobbying, a.k.a. legal corruption.
Adobe just integrated this exact functionality into their suite. NFTs to prove provenance, and embedded in the child product. It's pretty neat.
It's interesting to see how those "standards" are not pushed by users but by industry. See also governance issues about W3C vs WCAG and how Chrome defines "standards", or how W3C was bullied into "standardizing" DRMs.