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> aside from say bragging rights / social status since digital art can be copied and viewed without owning the token

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Mona_Lis...

This is a pretty high resolution copy of the Mona Lisa. If I went to see it at the Louvre in person, I wouldn't be able to see this level of detail.

I've never even seen the thing with my own eyes, but I know it's a pretty big flex by the French that they own it.

The most common reaction I've heard from people that have seen it is that it's surprisingly small.

It was insured in 2021 for $870M.

> 1) if that’s all one cares about then donating to them directly will give them more money since transaction fees are cheaper

It's not about donating to the artist directly, exactly. It's about putting a value on their work, which is likely more valuable to the artist than a direction donation.

> 2), I haven’t looked into this directly, but it would seem token resale fees given to artists are not enforceable since they could be worked around by having a holding contract that gets traded instead.

Maybe, but if you ever need to "really" own the piece for some reason, you'd have to reconcile to mainnet anyway, and the artist would get paid then. Everything else is just a promise.

For example, even today, you may need a previous NFT by an artist to get in on a new drop from that artist.

> Now if they start to be used in some enforceable way such as in a DRMd display then this would be a form of underlying value but why not use a non DRMd display?

Actually, most artists want their work to be widely seen. This creates a virtuous cycle. You buy an artist's work, which increases the value of that work, which increase the artist's exposure, which increase the artist's perceived value, which increases the value of the work you purchased, which leads to more sales for the artist, etc.

Instead of a one-time donation, the fan becomes quite literally invested in the artist.

It's the same reason a musician might want to trend on TikTok by giving away 60 seconds of their song "for free" in the hopes to make it up on streaming, merch, ticket sales, and influence later.

> Then there is the more general trend of treating tokens like these as investments where the value gets driven up and, appears to me, detached from any sense of underlying value. So the only way for the sale value of these tokens to hold is to have some one else willing to buy it. But if there is no underlying value then it’s not clear to me how this can continue indefinitely.

I remember being much younger and seeing people buy toys, instruments, and curiosities "as an investment". Most of these didn't work out, but occasionally I see something from my childhood on ebay and think "oh, well, obviously that was going to be important, i should have bought a couple of those and put it away".

Time causes some things to crystalize and other things to fade into obscurity. I suspect the same will happen with these "original" era NFTs.
I couldn't find the ever popular Asus RT Ac86u in that list, or the X version. Would it be converted under "asuswrt"?
This is a funny comparison.

"Here is this device with 50 components. It can be simulated by a device with 1000000000000 components, so we should not really be impressed."
Why do you say 3-6 years, I'm curious?
Maybe https://www.visidata.org/
The worst one I've experienced recently is HSBC's online banking. It requires you to set up a 6-10 digit PIN number on the phone and tells you that you must memorise it, not write it down. Yeah right. Like I'm going to commit a 6 digit number to memory while on the phone. This is one where I bet at least half of logins are the "forgot my password" type (the other half probably wrote it down).
I hope US esp. but also our EU scientist friends eat everybody else's lunch. Better tech. Better science. Better math. Better algos. And, yes, let's get those details right too. Noise management is a key discriminator between POC and practical.
I was going to mention that plugin as well. Its name is explicit with good reason.
They should at least make their sign-up and login password fields have the same max length attributes...
If you had to go through Mexico to get out of San Diego it would still be a really big deal, and would be commonly described as "cut off from the rest of the US."
I guess that means that it was silently truncating before the update.
This is such a stupid argument that keeps being repeated on HN.

People are not obliged to be paid in dollars. This means people could decide to be paid exclusively in some cryptocurrency.

So government collects taxes in dollars... what are they going to buy with that?
That's not entirely true. Having a national presence can pay off in terms of being able to sign deals with larger clients.
Self documenting code is not good in BrainFuck.
It's fixed now. Thanks!
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Hi Peter,

Automations are simple by design - the general automation steps are kept simple so they are easy to configure and create. We do however have a JS and a bash automation block. These blocks let you perform looping, iteration and logic using either JavaScript or bash.

The reason we use JavaScript is simple. Most software engineers can write or at least express simple constructs in JavaScript. Being a C family language, this makes it easy to pick up for engineers who have been exposed to other languages like Java, for example.

The problems you are describing are actually something that we have felt before, when budibase did not have JS support, we had users reporting that the templating/handlebars syntax was not good for logic, and was new to them. It was esoteric and required in depth knowledge for advanced use cases.

Using an off-the-shelf high level or more specific expressive language has some serious drawbacks, especially if you create it yourself. The first is education - writing extensive docs around how to write and use that language. The next is maintenance - maintaining your own custom PEG grammar or programming language is a huge project in itself, not even including the research required to execute it well.

By using JavaScript, we can leverage the already existing plumbing for executing JavaScript, and provide something that has much for familiarity to the general user.
Yes, you're definitely right. I was trying some hacks with css scroll-snap, but wasn't able to get anything functional.

If anyone has any input on how I could add more resistance to the scrolling, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thanks! That always confuses me
Reading HN enrages me, yet I cannot stop.
T-Mobile did this to me a few years ago. Don't know if they still do, but I couldn't believe anyone thought that was ok.
*Facebook's
I wasn't the one who brought up age brackets, you were ("infected 50 year olds"). But here's the calculation for the entire US population.

Total number infected until early November 2021: ~37 million [1]

Total population of the US: ~329 million

Infection percentage so far in pandemic: 11.2%

"Chance of infection" (per annum): ~7%

See above why this is an absurd extrapolation that nobody with any brains would take seriously. In the long run, pretty much everybody will get Sars-Cov-2. It's an endemic disease.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254271/us-total-number-... per your source, NYT and Our World in Data refer to 47 million cases
I keep reading between the lines that the fiscal policies are incentivising and prioritising innovation and higher education and knowledge work, and getting rid of manual labor by automation or outsourcing. Seems like a good thing, the way she is phrasing it is like a conspiracy by the "elite" that just decided to sabotage a prosperous large working class for no particular reason. Technological advancement must play a big part in this.
> This is a perfect use case for no-code platform like Airtable or MS PowerApps.

After reading the original blog post, it seems like their solution was pretty close to no code already. It very well could have taken longer to learn how to use airtable or powerapps than it did to hack this together.
I think you missed my point. Churn is obviously less desirable in the abstract, but the state of C++ build tools in particular is deplorable and the lack of churn doesn't come close to compensating for how terrible it is.
The rejected plan to build a bypass around the Malahat
Thanks! That's nice to hear.
We were recently notified that external USB storage will soon be banned, and to use OneDrive to transfer files.

My question to IT of "Hey we have clients that explicitly only allow the use of their own (incredibly terrible) file transfer platform, and block OneDrive. We've been burning stuff to CD with a usb drive and hand delivering it, if you ban those wat do?"

Got the form "this is how you use OneDrive" response back. Love it.
yikes? that means they knew your password therefore able to truncate it to 10 characters?!
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In a nutshell a place for your web page or mobile app to store and retrieve data. There is some auth, business logic / security stuff but not as much as you get in an MVC web app. Let’s you build apps where a lot of the work happens on the front end and the back end is basically a place to save to disk.

Parse was a startup but they shut down and open sourced their code.
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If just with previous password, then yeah, that's fine, but more then likely they are saying with the previous N passwords, which would require storing the previous N passwords in some kind of plain text or easily reversible form. Even if those old passwords are useless at that point (which might not be the case for something like a laptop that hasn't talked to the domain controller and learned that the password has been updated or something), it's still dangerous (what if they used that password on a vendor's site, or on their own banking login...)
How to practically check for common passwords? Ideal would be to have like the most common 1/1000th of the hibp so that it's not too big for deployment in some clever structure (compressed trie? bloom filter?). I don't trust 3rd party services.
We all know that to operate at scale you have to embrace eventual consistency.
Maybe it's not low-quality discussion in crypto threads, but rather a lack of high-quality discussion. Despite it's popularity, there are only a handful of people who are intimately familiar with how the blockchain works, the rest is mostly hype and Twitter campaigns for buying Bored Apes.
The person is frivolous in the Chinese room though, would you say (robot + hash table) understands Chinese? I.e. GTP-3 understands English…
The mainstream in the last 10 years is down with more fiscal spending in the form of investment, but that is still supply side. They are not down with "aggregate demand being structurally low, even between recessions".

Also the theory has not kept up. A lot of people spout decent ideas and do decent empiracle stuff, but the theory is not reformed and opposed to those conclusions so they just ignore it.

Really, the crazy Chicago people to their credit were always more honest about what the mainstream theory actually said. The saltwater people were rather two-faced in making sure they sounded less rediculous but not having an epicycle-free theory underpinning their more reasonable suggestions.
We need to make some clear distinctions here! You're partly right and partly wrong, and it's important to understand how.

Launch HNs (and also job ads) for YC startups are special mechanisms that get special front page treatment. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#yc. In that sense, but only in that sense, submissions are not treated equally. We do those things so HN gives something back to YC in exchange for funding it. That's important for a balance of giving and taking, and for HN's long-term future. I believe the bulk of the community understands this and is ok with it.

The important thing to understand is that these are specific, clear exceptions to HN's general practices. Other than that (plus orange usernames for YC alums), there are no such exceptions. In particular, what you describe here is absolutely not ok:

> sometimes come pre-loaded with canned comments that all show up at once.

We tell all HN users, including all YC founders, never to do that. Not only that, but I tell YC founders that it's the fastest way for them to get flagged and flamed by this community, and that there will be little we can do to salvage their thread if it happens. Basically I try my best to terrorize them about this. You'll notice that it's the only bold text in the Launch HN instructions: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html. It's also one of the few things that appear both in the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html: "Can I ask people to comment on my submission?") and in the site guidelines (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html: "Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions"). The rules are clear and they're the same for everybody*.

> There is one on the front page right now that I suspect is up to something like this

What is the link? Even when non-YC startups or projects do this, I often tell them not to and explain why it's not in their interest.

* That doesn't mean we automatically ban people for breaking them; there's a gradient of punishment. A lot of the time people have no idea that they're breaking rules or local conventions. That's different from hardened manipulators trying to game the site, people buying upvotes or comments from spammers (<-- do not! that will get you banned!), and so on.
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Not sure, but if you go to the main site, they do list instructions for Ubiquiti equipment so they seem to know about them.
All of those hooks make me wonder if object-based components aren't going to be supported at some point.
Doesn't this affect deliveries of needed supplies to the city? I guess the port and railways are not impacted, but I would think roads carry some significant cargo.
From a security perspective what issues do you see besides auditability? It seems like the surface area for supply chain attacks is expanded needlessly by these types of shenanigans but I'm not sure how that translates to concrete impact to a project. I suppose resources required to scan and detect a package takeover are needlessly consumed but that's more upstream/centralized.

But I'm with you, this is ridiculous and auditability alone is reason enough to avoid it. Even if you were trying to make a case for composable packages this is absurd to the point that I wonder if it's self aware criticism of npm or an inside joke.
The article talks about "the values and ­structures and injustices," but I think what's really behind the author's sentiment is, to put it in Judeo-Christian terms, man being driven from the Garden of Eden. I say this because, as the author notes, "demonic possession" has been around for a long time. Call it what you will, but it's found across cultures and across time. I think what he's talking about is fundamentally human.

In the past, and to put things in more secular terms, I've made two jokes on the subject. The first is: Evolution operates as if the work is being done by government contractors chosen because they've put in the lowest bid. The second is: Our brains are wired like the lights in a Christmas tree.

So, imagine Christmas tree lights being strung up by government contractors!

What I'm getting at is that we don't have the "luxury" of the animals, who simply go about their lives more or less moment by moment, dealing with the immediate. We're self-aware, socially aware, and most importantly temporally aware. Because of these things, we have conquered the world. The downside is that's all work done by the lowest bid has allowed for. Our brains work according to spec — and nothing more. Now and then, some of us simply crack from the strain. That's the bug.

What I'm saying is that to think hysteria — or, again, whatever you want to call it — isn't real is simple hubris. All of human history makes mention of it.
Swapping spit helps ants share metabolic labor
imo at least with dynamodb, its pretty straightforward what any given call is capable of doing, and you can get back capacity usage on every request to track. with these mysql/postgres compatible apis the actual query is abstracted as is its cost.
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Also the OpenSK project from Google uses them - build-your-own FIDO2 token :D
No, there's no sleight of hand. It seems you just agree that the man doesnt understand Chinese.

> at the scale of physical systems.

Alas, they are. Even classical mechanics isn't deterministic. Most systems are chaotic and require infinite precision in measurement to be deterministic. Since QM precludes this, most chaotic systems literally can only be predicted over short horizons.

Eg., there is moon in our solar system, i believe, with a chaotic orbit. At maximum possible measurement fidelity we can predict 20yrs.

Consider that all the particles of our body are just these little chaotic moons, and their aggregate chaos dramatically dimishes this 20yr horizon.

There is, quite literally, not enough information present in this moment to predict the next moment. Most systems are sufficiently chaotic in a sufficiently large number of parameters to preclude this. This reaches all the way up to classical scales.

Reality isnt a computer.
It is disappointing to see some people thinking this is not a big deal. Please don't spread that kind of misinformation.

We had multiple highways closed over southern BC, many roads down, power outages, municipalities evacuated, and tons of homes flooded in towns and cities all over southern BC. This is affecting a hell of a lot more than whether we can get to the rest of the country by road. There is almost no one who is not impacted. I'm on Vancouver Island and houses are having their basements flood, conking out heaters. Meritt is evacuated. The Malahat highway was closed. Ferries were cancelled. Various roads are GONE. Like - the asphalt is now in a river. Folks are getting airlifted out of highways by military copters.

This is unprecedented bad shit here - don't minimize it.
Introverts are exactly opposite to what you have described; they are uncomfortable at social events.

I have the exact opposite problem to what you have described. I am uncomfortable at social gatherings, but somewhat okayish at online discussions. It takes me a lot of mental preparation to attend any event so that I don't stand in a corner or outside the event venue during the event. It is not that I don't mingle with other participants, but it takes me extra efforts to do so and it just seems like I have to fake it. And it shows and the conversations don't seem natural(I think this happens to you when you are online).
Linksys does!

They have a series of routers designed to support OpenWRT (which IMO is better then DD-WRT but preferences of course). If it supports OpenWRT then others shouldn't be difficult to load on it either.

https://openwrt.org/toh/linksys/wrt_ac_series

I've had a decent experience with OpenWRT on a WRT1200AC

EDIT: I haven't used it for actual wifi (just routing/switching) in a few years so I don't know how good they are nowadays.

EDIT 2: OP asked for open source hardware, not hardware that runs open source firmware - my bad!
Yuri Manin is "way less well known"? I just spit my coffee out when I read that.
That's really interesting. I use aftermarket foam on my XM3, they fit solid and I could exercise with them in and not have them fall out (I don't use them for exercise however).

The ANC is the really interesting part, it's practically flawless in the XM3 I've never heard any of the issues you describe; which worries me that the XM4 has an issue or two, hopefully software ones that can he remedied but it doesn't sound good.

The XM3 doesn't support any sort of ear tuning, the feature in the app only applies to specific audio sources, none of which I have access to, so I can't comment on that part.

I've heard good things about the little rubber wedge in the Bose, I'd like that feature, but honestly I don't have fit issues with mine so it's not a deal breaker.
Thank you!

It's always good to see more people building interactive learning content. Feel free to email me at rahul@textframe.app if you want to chat.
A question I've had about OpenCollective:

Do they have any relation to the commons project? Their logos are virtually identical, and the OpenCollective logo has a similar colorway to that of their CommonPass project (https://thecommonsproject.org)
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I don't see an ethical argument going against what I said in the parent comment.

Here's a non-hypothetical scenario: Boeing lays off thousands of mechanical engineers in Greater Seattle Area. What do you suppose the local government has to do exactly to find jobs in mechanical engineering for them? What does it have to do with ethics?
Yes good thing Merkel did that. But they also are crazy austrians and crazy anti-nuclears.

"Syrians good, Greeks bad, let's breed Neo-Nazis with austerity so Syrians bad soon too. Oh and more coal." Is that really net good?!
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What max length? Once a password reaches 128 bits of entropy the key space is unfathomably large. You could have a password of length 1 with 10^100 possible values, and it could take a VERY long time to crack. In short, it has nothing to do with length, it has to do with bits of entropy, and there are still very real limits to what even the most powerful computers can brute force. Several years back, it was stated by Peerio that an 81-bit password would cost a billion dollars to crack. It becomes less feasible and more expensive from there.
I also hate when they force you to change passwords from time to time and forbid you to set one of your previous passwords. One particular offender is russian website HeadHunter [1].

I hope such people will go to very special hell after they die.

[1]: https://hh.ru
This is complete bullshit. EVERYONE is affected. Honestly, just read the BC news. If they think they aren't affected, then they don't understand BC supply chains and haven't noticed... yet.
Yeah, again, I don't know much about law in general but especially this stuff, just wonder whether the Wyoming treat DAOs as LLCs except Wyoming can take away protection if believing the DAO is fraudulent jives with SEC regulations [0]. I'm sure there will be different cities/states jumping on the bandwagon, as mayors are seemingly trying to be cool by taking bitcoin salaries. I don't know how much of it conflicts with current law and how much law will just change with the flow, a la Uber and AirBnB.

[0]:https://protos.com/wyoming-dao/
Oh, the atmospheric river did hit California, and pretty hard in some places. Last month was the wettest October on record here in San Francisco. The area around Dixie (where there was a big fire earlier this year) saw landslides.

According to a podcast I listened to, this pattern might actually be bad because alternating cycles of extreme rain and extreme dryness means more vegetation growth during the wet months which in turn means more fuel to burn during the dry months.
This i becoming quite surreal.

First the Russians use very limited budget/capacity to beat Tom Cruise in making the first film in space for optics.

And that’s after a series of serious quality control and operational errors.

And now the Russians appear to be re-acting the first act of the Sandra Bullock space film Gravity, where a Russian ASAT is the plot device to kick off the film.
Why would someone use metamask? I read over the web site and I still don't know what it gets me over not having it.

Edit:
Here are my guesses:

It's a crypto wallet?

It's an alt-dns?

It's a keystore?
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