skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What does "ownership" of an NFT even mean?

It means that the shared ledger (also called blockchain) has a record of that specific NFT belonging to your address.

> Can you even repudiate ownership later if you so chose?

Yes, you send it to a "burn address" which is a address no one has access to.

> Can you remove the record of your ownership of the NFT?

Like remove the history? If so, no, blockchains are (usually) immutable ledgers, it's actually one of the core value propositions for blockchains. You can send the NFT to a "burn address" if you don't want it anymore.

> Can you transfer that ownership outside of the blockchain?

Well, kind of but not really. You question is a bit like if you can transfer the ownership of a .com domain to outside the internet. I guess you could, in some way, but in most practical ways, no.

> NFTs seem like blockchain graffiti. You've purchased the right to tag a passing train car, that's all.

I don't know what to make of this, how is it related to graffiti and tagging trains?

A NFT is a really simple concept if you stop thinking about pictures and other media (since that doesn't really have anything to do with NFTs): A NFT is a cryptocurrency which only has a single token of itself. Like there only was one Bitcoin that was indivisible. You can transfer it to other addresses, but there can only be one at a time. That's all there is to it.
> This is just a lie. The token doesn’t convey ownership of then media. There is no rough understanding by which this is true.

The debate around this is pretty somewhat tiresome. Yes, you have to buy into the believe that the token represents the media, but it's as good a definition as any because all ways we talk colloquially about "owning" a JPEG are simply not the same as owning a chair.

- Copyright is just a set of limited legal rights granted to someone temporarily by certain jurisdictions. It's not the same thing as owning something, which is why we were laughing at the "you wouldn't steal a car" ads in the 2000s.

- Actual ownership means having access to a copy of the bytes, which is not perceived as meaningful, and only valuable to the extend that access is otherwise arbitrarily restricted.

- You can choose to believe in the artificial scarcity of a certificate of ownership.
The heat flux through the walls depends on the temperature of your apartment and your neighbor's apartments -- not on if your thermostat is on or off. So even if you leave your thermostat on at 19° you still benefit. And you have no obligation to turn your thermostat up.
May I introduce you to PRISM? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
Don't paint all mechanical keyboards with the same loud brush. They can be quieter than a basic membrane keyboard.
Cornel West has only published 3-4 or so slim volumes in 4 decades. how does he still have a job?
I think distrust in governments has already peaked, at least in Europe. The right conservatives have lost votes in the last elections. Also paradoxically Covid has proven conspiracy theorists wrong and further will since more anti-vaccination people will get seriously sick.

On the other hand disillusionment in governments will be greater especially from the progressives because of Climate Change. The latter will probably be pivotal and if both governments and economies fail to deliver, this will lead to disrupting changes in the way politics is done. In France there are already citizen councils since the Yellow vest protests (sparked by increased fuel taxes) and in Germany they are also being evaluated. I expect those to grow much stronger already in the upcoming year.
OK, so it's one of the more flexible ones (like those binary jsons) rather than something like protobuf. I guess that should have been obvious from "self-describing".
One of my neighbors has a bright light on a garage behind their house. It shines directly onto my backyard and I see it as light pollution. It is a nuisance for sky watching with my telescope.
Do the people doing thirty over really see it that way?
Thank you for bringing back this memory. As a child who had recently installed Linux for the first time, I saw someone presenting at Bentley Systems using CoLinux and have forever wondered what it was (I wasn’t able to speak to them directly nor was it related to the presentation they gave). I dove into virtual machines at the time thinking it was just some seamless graphical sharing and a wallpaper to show it off, but seeing the logo it was definitely this.
Of course it does. Go try and right click save a Bitcoin and sell it on Coinbase or Gemini.
> they were unified by one thing, they had no interest in being governed by foreign rule ever again.

This has absolutely _nothing_ to do with what I wrote.

I have no idea why you'd even make this comment?
I don't think this is accurate. Sometimes the facts are so plain that the new truth wins (or, at least, the old truth dies) quickly without much fuss.

Perhaps the earliest example of this was the destruction of the Ptolemaic view of the solar system by Galileo's observation of the phases of Venus. This was a "killer fact" that rapidly (after 1611) led to abandonment of that venerable theory, even by its supporters (although Clavius would die soon after). Sales of the standard texts on Ptolemaic astronomy, Sacrobosco's Sphere and Peuerbach's Theoricae novae planetarum went into immediate terminal decline.

A more recent example is the Big Bang's success over the Steady State model. The cosmic microwave background radiation was such an overwhelming piece of evidence in favor of the former that only cranks persisted with the latter (including unfortunately Hoyle, admittedly.)
Hmm, it seems like you need to make sure the computer is on before calling this function, or else you run the risk of getting back undefined data. Seems like we also need a function that can be used to tell if the computer is on...
If one of your neighbors left for a long vacation and turned their thermostat off, causing your apartment to cool down significantly, would you turn your thermostat back on?

IMO, the fair thing to do is to set your thermostat to a temperature that you're satisfied with and leave it there. If your neighbors want their apartments at 22 degrees that's their business and your benefit. You don't have any codified responsibility here exactly, but it's still best to follow the golden rule.
> If $cloud_vendor doubled their prices tomorrow, what are you going to do ?

> If $cloud_vendor decided to kill-off a product tomorrow and replace it with another one with a different API, what are you going to do ?

Been using AWS for close to ~10 years now and I don't recall them doing anything remotely similar to above. Of course, they could potentially do it in the coming days. But going by their past behaviour I'd say it's a low probability event.

When the cloud/AWS was new these fears were indeed valid. But this line of reasoning is getting old and tiring; especially when it's not backed by even anecdotal evidence and is purely speculative-fear in nature.

I do know that Google, Twitter and others have pulled down some fairly popular APIs/products but please don't conflate that with GCP/AWS/cloud offerings.

For most of the startups it's not even a question of if cloud now. Early days (2010-2015ish) it used to be the case that engineers had to convince management about the advantages of cloud. Primarily because one had to mostly go hybrid as many of the services weren't in cloud yet (such as Route 53, RDS etc.,). It was a pain to maintain hybrid. Now it's possible to run 100% of tech stack in cloud. So it's the other way round; VCs and business folks will frown upon tech if they run on bare-metal/data-centre.
The blockchains have provenance of themselves and the space within them, which is exactly what the NFT represents. Nothing more, nothing less.
I feel like every browser but maybe Chrome has tried to shove some kind of bloatware into their product. For example, Firefox has tried for ages to cram Pocket down peoples throats and people seem fine with that. I don't agree with any of this bloat, but it seems like people are okay with some of this kind of bloat as long as it's only from certain companies.
It may not be useful to you, but as someone who maintains a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, I currently have to make an upfront decision about how to allocate storage between Windows and Linux. Having everything in one partition would free me from having to either over-allocate OS-specific space, or risk having to resize partitions later if I run out. It would also eliminate the need to have duplicate copies of certain data across both operating systems.
"Though I suspect you'd conclude that not knowing Davis' discography automatically makes me not a serious music fan."

Not necessarily. Just not a serious jazz fan. Most people when they say they are a "music fan" invariably mean rock/pop of various stripes (from indie to metal and everything in between) and not jazz, or opera or "world music" so maybe it's that you gave a pretty broad statement with no caveats?
Why People Vote Against Redistributive Policies That Would Benefit Them
I think so. I’ve enshrined an adaptation of FAR 91.3 into our technical operations handbook (which is incorporated into our SOX compliance policies). The intention was to make sure that a specific group is clearly, unambiguously, and completely in charge. They are the final authority as to the production operation. (We call this group “Problem Management”, though in the ITIL framework this is more akin to critical incident management)

“Problem Management is exercising emergency authority here” clears away any ambiguity and the confidence this gives them means they are free to act to resolve an incident rather than wonder who they need to call to give the blessing.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.3

When onboarding new members to that group, we go over this, including the origin story as part of helping them understand how (and that) we expect them to use this.

In other areas? Probably. Aviation tries not to bet lives on a single piece of equipment working perfectly. Where that’s unavoidable (like the Jesus nut and pin on a helicopter), inspection and maintenance procedures are more stringent.
Typing on my wife's iPhone SE is an ordeal for me, and I don't even have large hands. For me that's a reason why I prefer largish phones (I have a Pixel 3a, which is not that big).
if someone slips in front of your house because you failed to clear snow from the sidewalk I believe you can get fined or sued
Try playing music you don’t own a license to on YouTube or Twitch. IP enforcement on the Internet is having a Renaissance to the point of spuriously punishing people who aren’t violating anything.

Fraudulently minted NFTs have been taken down (at least from marketplaces) as well.
> Stuff in ROM is significantly easier to track because it happens slower, mostly by large trackable entities and processes.

Assuming you're able to track it at all. If the hardware does not provide any way to read the blobs, then how do you track anything? Decap your CPU and stick it under an electron microscope? Much easier to inspect a file on my filesystem.
Personally, my academic achievement was motivated by a desire to get out of the environment where I grew up (where I was very much not out). I’ve met others with the same story.
I would agree that these authors are speaking to a different audience and a different purpose than most authors of pop sci books. I think they want to reach political leaders, businessmen, and regulators to forewarn of the many impacts of adopting deep learning-based “AI” in mainstream commercial, government, and military services. And likely, disruptive impacts, due to the sudden and deep shifts in the status quo that will surely result.

Unlike most books to date, this book about AI is not intended for technologists or tech fanboys. When the three authors are the CEO that oversaw the growth of a now-trillion dollar behemoth high tech corporation, and the singly most experienced political counselor of hundreds of world leaders and staffs for the past 50 years, and the Dean of MIT's school of computing — they hope their collective gravitas will speak to a more sober and authoritative audience than prior books on AI.
You can generate tree without directory
gay != pedophile. I think a more reasonable explanation is that people who are sexually attracted to kids maybe seek out positions where they will have authority over them.

Edit: looks like you edited your comment while I was typing my reply. I think the concentration can be explained by the larger amount of boys-only schools, etc., and priesthoods allowing only males. So naturally there is a filter - men who are attracted to young boys will go into the priesthood more than men who are attracted to young girls.
But that doesn’t seem fair either? GP is perfectly happy at a cooler temperature.

If GP actually preferred an even colder temperature (perhaps for sleeping or exercising) and had to turn on the air conditioner, can they bill their neighbors? GP must pay more for their neighbor’s comfort.
> while their policies have absolutely nothing to do with improving users' security or privacy

IIRC Stallman criticized Ubuntu for collecting users' search info by default-- something they used to do[1].

It's unfortunate to see a call to nuance paired with an exaggerated claim that is so easily disproven.

1: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/ubuntu-spyware.en.html
I probably shouldn't confess this publicly but, I once did not wish to incur the expense of a obtaining a book, so I read my neighbor's book over their shoulder, using their light.
From a recent conversation with a (soon to be) lawyer [as I understand it] software typically uses what's called a "shrink wrap contract" [1] wherein the _usage_ of the product implicitly accepts a license. As far as I can tell, nothing in the ERC721 standard (for example) has any provision for such a legal instrument to be included.

As such, I don't see how NFT "ownership" can (currently) be construed to possess any legal rights whatsoever unless agreed upon externally to the NFT in which case... what value is the NFT adding?

Would love to get a proper legal teardown of this space.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrink_wrap_contract

[2] All this said, I could see a world where an NFT smart contract requires a cryptographically signed _legal_ contract to be hashed into the transfer as a form of legal consent. But for some reason this isn't yet reality.
Please lobby your software provider to release Linux builds.
I only use Windows because some software do not exist and don't work on Linux.
If not for that I would have run Linux long time ago.
Well, they can make the same argument for crypto. They don't want customers who are trading a lot of crypto, because it might lead to regulatory headaches for them down the road.
>Like - what do you even need, while driving?

Front and rear defrost, mist light, wipers, rear passenger airco are things I miss physical buttons for. Mist light is the most annoying since you can't even use voice control and it's fairly deep in the menu. Same thing for passenger airco.
How could a website work with Chrome and not Edge? Just user agent sniffing ignoring the Chrome and specifically choosing not to work with Edge? I can't imagine that's common at all.
Unless you are doing something really short-living, or just calling FFI for IO, python is really slow compared to node or java.
Facebook AI Similarity Search (Faiss)
Backup software that allows for write-once-never-modify is great in that regard. One of my favorite features of tarsnap: you can separate privileges for writing backups and removing. Introduces a bit of overhead, though.
It plausible, but I think sexuality, emotional intimacy .. are key factors in ones life. I personally had other troubles regarding those and the day they went away I realized how my life would have been different if I could have just played the games my buddy played as teens while I was head stuck in the sand obsessing about some intellectual stuff.
It's a fools errand to try to equalize NFTs with anything from the physical reality we live in. NFTs are exclusive to blockchains and have no real-world counter-part, I think that is a part of why people are so confused about them. No analogy is perfect, and makes it hard for people to understand what they really are about. NFTs are not like naming rights, nor domain names, nor is it art, nor is it anything else.

Easiest explanation is that a NFT is like a new cryptocurrency, except it only exists one token of that cryptocurrency, and it's indivisible.
I like how it also has support for the ENIAC platform. I kicked my family out of the house so I had room to install the ENIAC. Happy to hear there's an OS I can run on it to get real work done, like posting unfunny jokes for strangers on Hacker News.
Google Stadia is celebrating its second birthday with hardware for free or cheap
I'm with you on this. Win 10 is a solid OS.
That assumes autism is an isolated binary trait, which it is not.
this is only partially true; on my model Y you can manually wipe once by pressing a physical button on the left stick of steering wheel, though you’re still right about needing to use screen when switching between wiper speed settings
> Long list of people here saying Snowden deserves to rot in jail for revealing a massive, illegal domestic spy program. Even with his documents, no citizen has been able to challenge this in court because of secrecy rules. There’s no such thing as a whistleblower without evidence, that’s called a parish who gets ignored.

I'm in favor of prosecuting Snowden because he did substantial and potentially permanent damage to our intelligence gathering abroad.

> There’s no such thing as a whistleblower without evidence, that’s called a parish who gets ignored.

He could have gathered information, contacted appropriate members of the Senate, and launched an investigation such as the Church committee (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee).

> Are you all also in favour of prosecuting the journalists who publish this material?

That depends on what they publish and whether it's determined to be illegal. Hopefully the courts would allow publication as in the Pentagon Papers case (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers#The_Supreme_Co...).
Kids with parents in the field can easily accomplish things (with a little help)

Defeats the whole meritocratic element tho, makes you think about the real reason behind this
Building a professional design tool on the web (2015)
You all really are triggered when someone criticizes one of your holy idols, like math.
Not relevant.

What Christians believe, doesn't necessarily have anything to with what the Bible says.

Even when it does, then it's often cherry picked.
Yeah the idea is the same except for bitcoin as the asset. Additionally no minimum asset amount. SLOC allow borrowing up to 35-50% of asset vs 80% or more. The interest rates are comparable tho.
> IIRC Linux has a capability to specify the root partition at some time during loading. (Probably via the bootloader params—this is where Grub comes in use.) This is helpful for booting from a ‘recovery’ floppy/cd/usb drive and into the system on the HD. But can also be used with VMs.

you can do this, but i've always found figuring out what drive to mount to be a challenge in the grub interface. at one point in time it was the best option.

these days, it's generally easier (imho) to just boot intot he livecd/usb environment, mount the volume you want to repair, and chroot into it
They laughed at Galileo, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Why are there so many lazy posts that get high rankings on HN? Someone posts a Wikipedia link of some already established, well known technology and people vote for it?
> and pays no fees if they repay on schedule

Every single instance of this type of thing that I’ve looked at has had a fee for using their services, either a flat amount or a percentage of the transaction cost, so that even if they’re interest-free (and don’t they announce that loudly!) they’re not cost-free.
My conclusion or theirs? I’m not sure what you mean.
Brave definitely supports Netflix. It just asks if you want to enable DRM first. It's an option, like in Firefox, but it shouldn't be hard to enable at all. It asks you when needed.
I did this with VMware Workstation back in 2000-01, only the other way around if I remember it right (Linux host, dual booting / shared with a virtual Windows 2000 partition). I was honestly surprised it worked so well.
must be serverless
Recently I tried sharing a Steam library between Windows and Linux. Sadly, Proton does not support FAT32 so if your goal is to run those games under Proton you will be disappointed.
Any written summaries/reviews? Ain't nobody got time to listen to podcasts.

Edit: Transcript link in the first reference you gave.

>Eric Schmidt: About 12 years ago, I met him [Kissinger] at a conference called Bilderberg.

The Bilderberg Group[1] is the closest thing to a "secret cabal running the world" that we actually have. Not very secret, though.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilderberg_meeting
We've been hearing the same thing about cryptocurrency and blockchains for literally over a decade now. We always seem to be just a year or two away from real, useful applications of blockchains, or truely useful cryptocurrencies. Now we're we're apparently just a few years away from some nebulous "useful NFTs".
so you want to install the proprietary Safari browser which isn't even available for any OS other than MacOS?
Oh! On this interpretation, the GP comment is basically missing an instance of the definite article there:

> And usually you only have package maintainers doing this, not the actual developers.

It's not super unusual for the maintainers of some program's packages in several distros to also be core developers of the project, but yeah, that's a good point.
It was the best of times.
is_computer_on_fire() seems more usable...
Yes, the worst is when so much silence is removed that it sounds like someone is laughing over themselves.
Tesla’s charging network is now open to other vehicle types.
> all the phisher has to do is make a call at around the same time that the legit employee called you

How does the phisher have information about what time the bank is calling?
They're riding the line of unfairly non-competitive behaviour again. They haven't learnt. Seems they just got better as an organisation at hiding their malignancy behind a facade of propriety.
Model S was launched almost 10 years ago, that's enough to get a car out of shape. Then, we're talking about a first generation product of a company learning how to deal with any of that. I don't find it surprising they're not outstanding.

In fact, I've seen a brand new Model 3 last year... The amount of manufacturing defects and design issues its owner found in the first week would be unthinkable for a Skoda Fabia. If Tesla wasn't leap and bounds ahead on the drivetrain (including batteries), they'd be on their way out.
Very likely the source.
By definition the computable functions are those that can be computed by a Turing machine or equivalent apparatus, so talking about "computation beyond Turing machines" is incoherent.

However, uncomputable functions not only exist, but are the overwhelming majority of functions. This suggests that at least some aspects of reality might only be accurately described by uncomputable functions. How could uncomputable functions exist in an entirely computable reality?