skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Politcs, driven by the same group that botched Longhorn in name of C++ and COM.

https://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/windows-8-and-winrt...
Great article. I might be a bit late to the scene, but to add to the first section, there are also `console.time`, `console.timeLog`, and `console.timeEnd`. Very handy!
> I don't see any particular reason to make my own tools in C# vs anything else.

I can tell you why the company I work for uses C# to develop microservice based products:

-cross platform

-tons of libraries

-integration with most of the things we need

-great speed

-good productivity

-great tools

We can iterate fast, have performance. Also, C#/.NET is good for other purposes such as mobile apps, frontend, writing glue code, and even desktop if the need arises.
Human experience simply cannot be averaged over large spans of times while ignoring the extremes. Dipping into the red means permanent damage. Imagine applying this line of thinking to your bank account -- "sure I spent $500k in two years on fast cars and fancy bars, but averaged over 80 years of paying small amounts of interest, the bank should be glad to make the sacrifice of stability in favor of efficiency."
That is bad enough, but the worst part is that the content is not really discoverable outside of Discord. Sometimes you don't want that of course but I have seen communities pretty much dying because they only met there with no influx of new users.
May be a dumb question but how can we certify that the same asset doesn’t exist as two or more NFTs on different block chains. There are tons of them and each can have its own monalisa.
Is there something I could integrate in CI for Python code? It should pick up adversaries who change variable names and grandfather old copy paste code.
The explanation for why it's useful is at the bottom of the page, but it wasn't necessary before glibc got behind and before Linux started adding things that glibc would probably never implement*. Generally, on UNIX-like systems, the C library isn't just the C library but also exposes the UNIX/POSIX API which is just a set of wrappers around calling into the kernel (done with software interrupt 0x80 on x86 Linux.)

* Remember that glibc is part of the GNU project and is meant to be portable beyond Linux, especially to Hurd. It might not make sense for them to implement interfaces that wouldn't work or would require significant work to emulate on Hurd, the BSDs and Solaris.
Mice, people, do not get too carried away…
Why not politely state the reason and leave?
Not wanna bring down that project, but be wary of V, as in the past it has made plenty of impossible to live up to “features” and indeed, never delivered. But I haven’t followed it since then.
sometimes i feel like nfts are the new mlm
France doesn't exactly have a national identity register. Many other European countries do (like Belgium where I live) but France has a collection of registers, one or more per administration, each limited to the relevant information needed for that administration to perform its duties, and sharing information between them is forbidden by law outside of a few cases.

Thus, many people vote in a different place than where they live and where they are registered for the tax admin. The address on one's identity card is often obsolete by a decade. The address on my passport is yet another one, obsolete as well but that doesn't actually matter because it's never used as a proof of residence.

Social security is the closest thing there is in France to a national register, but no other admin or organisation is allowed to use the social security number. And the contact address they have can very well be out of date as well.

Law enforcement came to "my door" a few months ago (to ask if I could help them with logs of my server on a case) and they actually were lucky because they came to my parents' house (an address I had forgotten to update in my host's contact info) just as I was on holidays there, but they didn't even know I had been living in Belgium for years. Since I wasn't a suspect, they had no right to actually know any info from the various national administrations.

I lived in Canada for a year and some and it seemed to me to be basically the same, although maybe I didn't stay long enough to know more about how it works there.
> Never ever ever ever give your phone number to Google for verification or authorization.

You literally do not have a choice, last time I checked you had to setup SMS 2FA first. Once you’ve done that you can setup a better method and remove the SMS, but you have to remember to do it.

> If my antiquated bank that is insured and doesn't really care can understand this, so can you, if you care just a bit.

My bank certainly has not gotten that memo.
> I do know of two cases of "fake programmers" (...) the person was able to sneak under the radar at Google for multiple years before someone realized that the person never actually wrote any code and tasks only got completed when they got someone else to do the task. The person who realized eventually scheduled a pair programming session, where they discovered that the person wasn't able to write a loop, didn't know the difference between = and ==, etc., despite being a "senior SWE" (L5/T5) at Google for years.

I thought this only happens in tv shows. Was it more like Big Head from HBO Silicon Valley (the company forgot about the employee) or Frank Abagnale from Catch Me If You Can (conman who managed to fake his identity and credentials)?
A legacy system you can't quite replace is called state of the art.
I would bet it was written in orgmode.
That won't happen, and even if it did it wouldn't matter.
The racket top-level is pretty half-assed compared to something like SBCL. Compared to most schemes it is about 1/4 assed.

There is good reason for it in the racket context, but if you want a lisp machine you should pick something else.
> assume everyone +18 has this "capacity"

And you did well to put 'capacity' in the bunny quotes of figurative speech, because it is a strongly false assumption.

Those "you" you refer to with that «we» should better revise their assumptions. And again you should be very wary of what you put in your head.
Hmm, that's a very good point.

I wonder what the cost of tarmac vs rails is, I suppose it's a question for an expert.
But it still looks 10x better than Discourse.
The stuff you describe about physical art is only valid within a jurisdiction that has legislated ownership of physical items. You can very well take control of an object without owning it and lock it up in a custom warehouse. You can be custodian of it if the legal framework allows for that, it still can be yours of someone takes ot from you physically. Depending on the jurisdiction, it is possible that despite you paid to own the physical art piece, you are still not allowed to take photos of it in purpose to reproduce the images of it. You may own it but maybe you can't break it down or take it away from its place.
These are all constructs that societies had it differently and it's all matter of legal and political processes.

There's no inartistic ownership, it is a social construct that happens within a community.

The blockchain doesn't operate within the traditional legislations, ownership within a blockchain means people who use it accept the record as true. If it says that you own it, you own it(within the community of people who use blockchain).
Wooden Apple 1 hand built by Jobs and Wozniak goes to auction
i think the appropriate way to 'celebrate his life' is to actually push to achieve what he was trying to achieve -- namely, establishing free access to academic journals.
Ownership of digital goods does exist since blockchain technology. You can now proof that things existed at a given time and that you are the rightful owner. That was not possible before without a middleman.
Incoperate that to YouTube. At the moment millions of channels steal video revenue from their creators. If it would be accepted as proof that you where the first uploading this video, ownership can be proofen in an instant without lawyers.
To the driver's credit, he was only trying to mine cryptocurrency, not attempting to murder the bicyclists. /s
> how can we certify that the same asset doesn’t exist as two or more NFTs on different block chains

You can't. But surely some wise guy is pitching a blockchain for that right now.

It's actually worse, the same certificate could exist on multiple blockchains, and none of them guarantee approval by the original artist; all could be legally void certificates of nothing.
Seems, like a very interesting idea, but the readme states:

> Currently, the only supported architecture and compiler is x86_64 and GCC, respectively

Let's wait until its architecture-independence has arrived in practice.
How does it compare to Hololens? How does it compare to Oculus Rift?

One thing I wonder about is whether VR hardware will evolve like mobile hardware did back in 2005-2006. In 2004, Microsoft and RIM were the leaders in the emerging “smartphone” category, which was focused on business users. In the next 2 years, Apple set a new standard with a consumer-grade device that easily ate up the business market as well.

Will the winners in the VR hardware category win with consumer first, and subsequently take over “work” scenarios? Or will these split into different hardware modalities?
yeah, unfortunately it still is
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/10/18/national/hate-s...
Why is "soft cost" half of the 30-35k price tag? What is that?

This is a weird cost estimation. Is there really a hidden sink of costs that doubles the effective outlay to get solar and storage?
When money has no value (rates=0%) you are better off spending it rather than saving…
Three types of people "get" NFTs:

- those that have something to gain from it, and are likely insincere;

- those that are ashamed of not getting it and merely pretend to understand it;

- those that duel in such profound abstractions that the actual world for them becomes a nuisance, a minor detail, an after thought.

NFTs are a joke, a thought experiment taken too far. They're the modern version of The Emperor's New clothes.
Fast framework for Web, MAUI for mobile and desktop, Blazor for frontend, ML.NET for AI and ML, Unity and Godot for games, F# for functional programming. All relatively fast and easy to use. Libraries for everything and good documentation.

The only thing we miss is system programming due to not being able to opt out of using the garbage colector.
They found the scapegoat. This is very important. Of course, who needs quality control ? Are all the parts tested by one person without any review ? Is the test process not reviewed ? I feel sorry for the poor sailors which will board those submarines.
The deal is that you provide the recipe book in exchange for legal protection and a short-term legal monopoly. The other side of that deal is not honored by China, which is Elon's point.
just wait til they roll out 2FA with the phone number being needed for a confirmation call (no authenticator app, there was a bug found in auth app 7000! voice calls only way!)
That isn't different for Discord though and reddit can be crawled at least.
I've been talking about native AoT.
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Higher end nft's store the images on arweave or filecoin for decentralized persistent storage.
Lot description on auction website [1]:

The "Chaffey College" Apple-1 Personal Computer

1976-1977, Palo Alto, CA

Comprising the original Apple-1 "NTI" motherboard [marked: Apple Computer 1 / Palo Alto , CA Copyright 1976] with original blue Sprague 39D capacitors, original power regulators, rare original "Circle D" ceramic .01 capacitors, and an Apple Cassette Adapter (ACI) in an original ByteShop Apple-1 koa wood case with Datanetics Keyboard Rev D [keyboard dated: Sept 21 1976], Apple -1 connecting cable, and power supply, partnered with a 1986 Panasonic video monitor [model no. TR-930U; serial no. KA6320206; dated: MAY 1986]; accompanied by a period Xerox copy of the Apple-1 Basic Manual, the Apple-1 Operations Guide, an original MOS 6502 programming manual, and two Apple-1 software cassette tapes with period hand-written index card with memory locations for the Apple-1 loading software; further accompanied by three original video, power, and cassette interface cables, 16 pieces

Computer: 4.25" H x 15.75" W x 17.5" D; Monitor: 8.5" H x 8.75" W x 9.75" D

[1] https://www.johnmoran.com/auction-lot/the-chaffey-college-ap...
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I other than e-bikes I have never seen a motorcycle on a bike path. I'm not sure you know what I am talking about when I say bike path.

I am talking about a dedicated asphalt path that runs parallel to a road with parking and/or a curb or barrier between traffic and the bike path. Next to this path is a sidewalk for pedestrians, separated by grass. In some places the pedestrian and bicycle traffic merge. They are always separated from traffic. Sometimes they take routes that do not follow roads, such as through parks.

The road itself also has a bike lane which is striped between traffic and the parked cars. Cars and bicycles sometimes share this space, sometimes it is separated by a double white line or some cones. Considerate bicycle riders that want to go faster than is safe around pedestrians use this in-the-road bike lane rather than the bike path. This is where e-bikes that can go 28mph belong.

The only motorized vehicles I have ever seen on these bicycle paths are e-bikes. I have not seen full electric motorcycles (with plates, like a Zero) or any ICE vehicle, even a moped, on these paths.
The Ancient Origins of Consciousness
Excellent article about new PHP features.

If you prefer reading code instead of text that explains code with many words, like I do, this article is for you.
Why are people downvoting this? It's a very good point: the value of the NFT is the fact that it was minted by X. Nothing else really matters and what's stored in the NFT is just fluff.
> Each ENS domain name is an NFT.

Wasn't Namecoin solving the same problem years before Ethereum existed? What makes ENS/NFTs novel?
Sorry about the vulgar comment... I am always getting really riled up about people dragging Germany through the mud for its energy policy.

Not because Germany doesn't deserve it. It absolutely does. But we should stick to facts - Germany simply should have gotten rid of coal before nuclear but of course the government (CDU/SPD parties) historically cared more about existing coal jobs than potential new jobs in nuclear - especially in the 80s.
Well, yeah, merging kernel calls into the runtime of one specifically favoured programming language is a silly idea, why not have the kernel calls in a separate, cleanly defined language-agnostic OS-specific library? "It just the way the things has come to work historically"?
Rococo architecture is absolutely toooo much (to me, of course), the gulag toilet is too little.

There are options in the middle. Classicist touches (columns, simple harmonizing forms), big windows, scale, light, green, stairs, plazas. Walkable, connected to the underground public transportation, etc.

Sometimes less is more. There's no need to make houses organic looking, instead the architecture should provide spaces and light (hence a lot of glass) for real organic things. Humans, animals, plants.

https://media.jlgarchitects.com/jlgblobstorage/2019/04/sdsu-...

https://jlg-legolas.azureedge.net/jlgblobstorage/2019/01/fir...

Of course you might absolutely not agree.
It doesn't go into issues which I think is the most important.

Slack / Discord being free?

Who is setting up the forum? Who is paying for it? Who does the maintenance? Who does the moderation with Spams?

Part of the reason why Discourse took over most of the forum for Open Source is that they are free for Open Source Project. And there are little to no maintenance involves.

Not to mention to this day, forum software still sucks.
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Videos already have timestamps.

Plus, all you gotta do is change one imperceptible bit in the video to get a different hash. Now your "proof" method is useless again.

Well, actually, that's incorrect. It was always useless, it's not useless "again."
> Settings are expressed as JSON. You will be more successful if your JSON file editor is something like Visual Studio Code and supports JSON Schema so you'll get intellisense.

Horrible. What's wrong with a config menu. ( Of course if they do it like Settings in Win 10, with or without config is the same).
What happens when the domain in the tokenURI expires? Or when the HTTPS certificate expires? Or when the server gets hacked? Or the server changes owners? Or the server operator just decides to abscond? Etc... this is complete nonsense.
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Less unhappy than the current situation where they can't use the site at all.

Also there's precedent of sites doing this. MetaFilter charges $5 to create an account. The bitcoin wiki used to require a fee (in bitcoin)[1]. Something Awful forums have a fee.

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/10932
Building an Encyclopedia with React and Wikipedia Search API
So... When is this nonsensical „Second Life FB Edition“ that makes zero sense coming out?

Why announce something… some time in the future?
I presume because it is clear what community bitcoin came from (the cipherpunks). It is obvious that this community would want bitcoin, and it is not a criminal community.

Besides, bitcoin isn't tailored perfectly. And the coins that are tailored better mostly seem to have libertarians and people who enjoy the tech building them.
You can get C# to run without the stdlib, and use it as a native language with some effort. Here's an example running Hello World as a C# EFI boot program: https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/zerosharp/tree/master/ef...
> The most plausible conspiracy theories I've heard is that the big sales ($1 million plus) are wash trades, ("sell" an object to a confederate for 500 ETH, then they transfer the money right back via another route) and some classic money laundering

I'm not sure if the link between NFTs and money laundering can be downplayed as conspiracy theory. Even yesterday Reuters published a newspiece on NFTs being auctioned by the likes of Sotheby's, and where crypto-rich buyers pay NFT auctions with crypto, where a cryptocurrency lawyer was quoted as pointing out money laundering via cryptocurrencies was a "known fact."

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/new-masters-how-auc...

Using NFT transactions to launder money isn't exactly a novel idea as the art world is dominated and driven by money laundering schemes. In fact, in Mexico the art market tanked 70% once the Mexican government passed legislation requiring more info from buyers, because it's believed Mexican cartel rings were behind these transactions.

https://www.artandobject.com/news/how-money-laundering-works...
Trust your instincts on this one. I bet you the people who couldn't figure out WTF was up with tulip bulbs felt much the same way.
In response to the title, some are.

Since blockspace has increased some people are deploying NFTs that put the binary data directly into them

A particularly novel one, to me, was that people did it with SVGs and html injection directly into the image location methods of the NFTs

It works! The marketplaces and wallets just read that. No ipfs required.
But the «outlandish conclusions based on the limited evidence» represent a strawman: the problem is different.

And it remains that the conclusions you have made are in your head and a substantial part of the rest of the world legitimately, according to their experience, came to different conclusions.

That argument is just valid. Especially given the tautology. You may get misleading corroborations from easier evaluations and than fail in the critical ones.
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Since you two have expressed two very extreme opinions, I would like to express my very bland opinion that this will effectively be the equivalent of when human computers of the early 1900s were replaced with microchips. We adapted, and in this instance the human computers are just propagandists.

I believe this will displace the workers of places like the Internet Research Agency and some Marketing specialists. While that accounts for a large percentage of propaganda jobs, that is easy enough to adapt from (nor do I really care given who is generally doing it), and marketing people who I generally don't have respect for either (I mean their founding document is literally titled "Propaganda"). The real marketing pros are good at managing hard to handle talent or bad PR disasters, which are actually meaningful skills that this won't affect.

So basically no moral or real consequential impact on society whatsoever.
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Before attacking Krugman (who has a Nobel Prize in this subject, btw) and dismissing him out of hand in favor of random hedge fund guys, please cite evidence, any evidence, that his supposed "partisan" attributes have affected his work or made it less reliable or accurate.

From where I sit, Krugman has been right a lot more often than the competition over the last few decades.
That’s just snobbery.
If my estimates about the reactor size are correct, they're just going to make nuclear keep up with solar in terms of additional GWh delivered annually by the newly build plants, so it's less a focus on nuclear and more a diversification of their mix.
$50 will be for a couple of km/h over the limit (after the 5 km/h "standard" deduction). At 20 km/h, it's CHF250; above that you're getting in front of a judge, will lose your driving license for a while and face thousands in fine and administrative fees.
Things being a social construct doesn’t mean their definitions lack solidity. Particularly when defended by force through mutually agreed frameworks like governments and legal systems with their own mutual agreements inter-jurisdiction.

All you do when you use a local definition is note that you’re going against the established definition by society, enjoy none of the protections and muddy the waters for people who don’t know you have a peculiar definition. This happens a lot in blockchain communities where ownership, trust, decentralisation and other terms end up being a lot more local in definition because the whole house of cards gets exposed if you actually look at things more neutrally. It’s a bit cult like in that respect and interestingly a lot of cults have odd ideas about ownership as well.
The legal monopoly (which is the same thing as the legal protection) has always been geographically limited, and has always existed at the pleasure of the government granting it.