skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the right doesn't have much media power (only Fox News is of consequence), and it's quite weak politically until the midterms. Biden can largely ignore the right in that sense, he doesn't have to care if the political right mocks him. Mostly Biden has to pay attention to being his own worst enemy. The media protects Biden as much as possible, and the deep state tries to utilize him to get what they want (war, larger budgets, various globalist policies, war on domestic terrorism to set up a more advanced surveillance state).

Biden's biggest problem by a dramatic margin, is the political center, which he has almost entirely lost already.

If the right mocking Biden had any power behind it, he would have never won the election in the first place. It was close enough at the Electoral College that if the US media landscape were 50/50 left/right, Biden would not have prevailed.

Obviously most everyone here understands that despite the flaws of the US, it generally doesn't disappear or exile as China does. The super structures that the left controls, which the right does not, do have very substantial power however (social media, big tech, hollywood, old media & news, journalism, education, welfare state).
So, would you agree with the following statement: The value of the real Mona Lisa is dominated by its physicality; the ability for its owner to touch and feel it.

A few further thoughts to ponder over:

1) No one touches and feels the Mona Lisa. Now, that's something wholly unique to High Art, but it is worth bearing: the Mona Lisa sits in a vault, or behind panes of glass, only touched by caretakers, who don't even own it. Yet, it has value.

2) Actually, I pulled the Mona Lisa as an example, but consider: is the Mona Lisa actually valuable? By what measure? USD in a Private Sale? Is there a market (really want to stress that word, because its critical: Market) for the Mona Lisa? Is there demand for the Mona Lisa, or is the risk of owning a stolen original of the most well-recognized art in history too great? Consider how this flips the conversation: I just presented a compelling argument for why the Mona Lisa, this Thing we've been using as a stand-in to represent a "highly valuable original good", may actually be worthless! Supply, Demand, and Market Liquidity vastly dominate the Pricing of most goods/services; not Value. Art Caretakers oftentimes describe pieces of art as "priceless"; its easy to interpret that as "REALLY EXPENSIVE", but they actually mean it at face value: No one knows what the price would be, because it has no price, because it has no market.

3) Are nonphysical goods destined to be valueless? For digital goods: Isn't this already sustainably demonstrated to be false, independent of any conversation on crypto? Fortnite turns billions a year in revenue, selling digital costumes and experiences to wear them in. Those costumes hold value to people; not marketable value, but value none-the-less.

4) Does Slack have value? Woah. Think about that for a second. What is the value of Slack? Forget the stock market; think intrinsic. Its a Digital Service. So, per the argument; its nonphysical, cannot be touched and felt, and isn't even a discrete good! This should be the apex of Worthlessness in many peoples' naive model of value, which is endlessly applied in-kind to NFTs; yet Slack demonstrably and undeniably has Value. Where does it come from? What components comprise the value of Slack Inc?
Maybe the most likely future of all...
Weird quantum effect that can turn matter invisible finally demonstrated
Thanks you! I worked on this for a long time and hearing that means a ton.

> the current model is (1) stale (2) 20-30 years old without any interesting innovations other than emojies/channel organization.

Yeah that's the most fascinating thing! Honestly I kept waiting for amounted to almost two decades for someone to build Pony before I built it. It never made sense that just because the medium of transmissions (the Internet) is instant, all applications built on top of that medium had to be instant, too! I mean, how many instant apps do we need? So I made Pony, because instantaneity is what really stood out to me as a factor that if modified could make a big difference in usability and experience.

Would love to hear about the time dynamics you're working with if you can share.
I honestly don't know why. It seems like relevant current news.
If I read something from the folks with vision for the utility of DAOs, will they explain why a DAO is meaningfully different from a traditional corporation for whatever purpose they are imagining?
Disney creates works billions of people want to see, and they have governments around the world enforce the ownership rights.

Nobody wants the piece of art associated with your NFT’s. And is there even any legally framework for the ownership of NFT’s or is it just something a weird club of people says is so?
Would it be legal to ask for a paysheet and determine the price based on that? When I hear price discrimination, I do understand that it’s always been the deal, but I wonder whether we’re trending towards something proportional to salary.
Like how when someone steals your car it's just gone forever?

There still exists a legal system in which the NFT could potentially recovered. Yes it's harder with easy cross border theft, but that just means we need better global treaties.
When existing tenants get to extract arbitrary rent to transfer their lease, it sure looks a lot like property ownership to me.
As it is now they (Huawei and ZTE) cannot fab the chips they have designed for their base stations, meaning the rollout of 5G in China is in danger.
Optimize the Picking Process with the right methodology in your Warehouse
If you’re living outside the US getting content in English isn’t anywhere as easy as it should be. These services are definitely America centric.

It’s been good for me, I just watch a whole lot less crap and get more sleep.
Yes, I almost added an addendum pointing out that China probably had the legal right to detain the Michaels under Chinese law (China is not always great at following its own written laws). In this whole business, let's just say that I have far more confidence in the fairness of the Canadian justice system than I do in the Chinese one.

I also agree that the U.S. most likely took advantage of the Canadian legal system to push a political agenda. That does not mean that the Canadian justice system did anything wrong. An extradition request was received, and so the process has to be followed in order to give a fair outcome under Canadian law. It is possible that extradition would have been refused and Meng Wanzhou would have been released. A big part of the reason that it dragged on for so long is that it was not an obvious straightforward case like most extradition hearings (though coronavirus certainly didn't help).

As for the claim that the Michaels actually were spies, well, I will keep an open mind, but I have not seen any credible evidence of that.

EDIT:

Nevermind that Canada had legally right to drop extradition if case is sufficiently politicized as well. But laws are subservient to politics.

You are seriously misunderstanding the Canadian legal system and the rule of law if you believe this. Laws generally are not subservient to politics except to the extent that Parliament can change the law. The law applies to everyone, politicians included. Yes, extradition can be refused if the motive for the request is determined to be political, BUT the court case must play out in order to determine this. Yes, the foreign minister can block any extradition if they believe there is a good reason to do so, but this would be a highly unusual thing to do as politicians avoid interfering in the legal system. It would be a very controversial thing to do.
Hang on a second: how is the US violating anything here? You’re roughly saying that the UK’s error transmits to the US because they lawfully leased land to the US that they consider theirs.

Of course the US is going to lobby to keep the base, and of course it’s horrific that thousands were forcefully removed to build it (and the US should compensate for that), but any interpretation where the US is in international error here due to Mauritian sovereignty considerations is plainly transparent in its purpose (particularly in a comment that references China off the bat).

That’s the UK’s problem. Notice the Mauritian prime minister in the very article you linked only discussed problems with the UK.
Simple: liberals are the enemy of the people. Liberals hate America and they will absolutely try to burn it down again tonight.
Be that as it may, but I can also feel the pain of implementing an old-as-balls image standard which has lots of historical options which account for, let's say, 70% of the effort of implementing the full standard, but are only used in .5% of the images available "in the wild". If these parts are then left out of implementations, it's regrettable from an academic point of view, but still understandable...
What part of the NFT protocol verifies provenance?

And why did this not work for Davidson Carvalho, who hasn't seen a cent of the money made by someone selling NFTs of his work? If there was no provenance, why did anyone pay $170,000 for them? [1]

Could it be the case that the NFT market doesn't give two figs about provenance?

[1] https://twitter.com/colorblindmess/status/145059819884259328...
I thought so too but now met enough people who believe in that interpretation and seen the virality of it; feel like it might have cultural legs. We'll see if it survives the crypto bubble popping and the monetary value of all the expensive NFTs disappearing.
This seems to be a version of “owning horses makes you healthier”
The only tech in our 2016 base model Jetta is CarPlay, which can be useful for maps. All the other controls are physical. It does have electric assisted steering, which I'm hoping will be more reliable than the traditional hydraulic power steering which usually requires a replacement at some point. It also gets really good mileage.
I was launching it via the CLI. As I said, I'm afraid I do not recall the reason it failed to launch. If it does so now that you have updated it I will forward what information I can through the appropriate channels.
Because members of congress and many retail investors believe it harms the interests of the small-scale investor.
Second to this. There are a story I read about a very successful diplomat who was so hard on itself that one day he fainted from the stress, because he thought he wasn't good enough. As he found the hard way that this cannot continue, he decided to fake it, if he cannot make it, and que sera. Very surprisingly to him, noone noticed and he was no less successfull afterwards.
I don't know what the situation is like in the US, but in Canada: the typical cost of basic cable service plus a couple of cable packages in 1990 cost roughly the same as basic internet service plus a streaming service today. It is difficult to even claim that this comparison is even remotely fair for a variety of reasons.

- The only major loss with the current system is local programming. You may be able to get it with free OTA channels, but people subscribed to basic cable in the 1980's and 1990's simply because cable was more reliable than a good residential antenna tower so it is justifiable to count this as a loss.

- The current system is much better in that you can watch commercial free programs when you please, any given streaming service is usually less expensive than any given cable bundle, and the content in any given streaming service will usually have more in common than the channels in any given cable bundle. (Cable companies were notorious for putting similar channels in different packages.) As an added bonus: the "watch when you please" aspect means that you can defer viewing, may that be to switch between streaming services to keep monthly costs down or to simply cancel during the months when you have better things to do than watch television.

- The current system is also better in that Internet service can replace many other products and services. Subscribing to newspapers is a novelty these days. If it wasn't for societal expectations, people would have dropped phone service since the Internet provides far better communications options than traditional landlines.
I wonder what else liberals and the media got wrong in the past year?

Covid restrictions? Covid vax/mask mandates?

Maybe we should start arresting a few people including Jack Dorsey for their terrorist activity.
Yes! Strongly agree with this. E2E is easier than you think and will be much harder to add after the fact.
> I'm not entirely sure that gating vs flagging should be defined differently

I think it’s interesting to contemplate. I think they’ve both stuck around at Stripe for so long because there’s something useful communicated by the (correct) choice, and having different implementations with different trade offs based on the use case.

OTOH, every single user of the system has to understand the differences in order to consume them correctly, and even the search/browse is (was?) separate, iirc. I suspect a big improvement would just be to unify the web administrative interface: clearly indicate which is which, but allow common operations without needing to know ahead of time whether something is a flag or a gate.
Thanks, that's one example for sure, hope they are still doing it.

Before posting this I read a previous HN article about 10x and their "negotiation as a service" offering, and in that thread it seemed like indeed they were in the agent business, but hard to get as your agent. Which makes sense of course if they're good at it.

But again I wonder -- if the business model is good, why don't we see more of it? Could it be that the people who make good agents are making better money doing something else, on average?
Apology totally accepted. I do genuinely think that my sources support my claim, but we all have our biases. [1]

TBH, I do not have a clear understanding of how things were in the 50's, but I do not think things would go back to the 50's if affirmative action programs were discontinued.

We probably can agree that there are a lot of anecdotes about this as you have one yourself. Contrary to popular belief, anecdotes and personal experiences are not worthless.

I agree that our anger should be placed directed the system which enables corruption, cheating and discrimination. Blaming the ordinary individuals would be counterproductive and sanctimonious.

[1]: For example, the Atlantic article does not mention affirmative action at all. You'd probably argue that's because it is not a major factor, but I think it is the elephant in the room. If I could edit my comment now, I would change "data" to "outcome data", and cite this graph https://archive.md/VwSmO. I do not see anything wrong with putting an anecdote in a footnote, however.
Social interpretation of the contract that the token is attached to.

e.g. if your Art Blocks NFT is on the Art Blocks contract, it's authentic. If it's the same image on a different contract, it's inauthentic.

Just saw your edit: now that it's known that the art is stolen from a different artist, I would expect the original NFTs to lose most if not all of their value. The convention of authenticity is a social one. If an artist misrepresents art as their own then it seems authentically theirs until shown otherwise. Same as e.g. selling prints of someone else's work.
> (hard drives and a media server)

Eh? I'm pretty sure at least 80% of pirates just delete the movie/show from their PC/laptop when they're done watching it, maybe casting it to a TV in the process.
Hasura is incredible! So happy to see you using it :)
Yes there is, with that said it is not what matters in his examples.
I love this idea. I don't practically know how I'd get others to use it though.
It's off-topic, lurk more or read the rules.
This trial hinged on technological evidence, specifically video upscaling, Apple's pinch-to-zoom feature, transcoding, and lossless data transfer.
In my experience, no with the caveat that you have projects that show a basic understanding of the framework the employer is looking for. I have moved from an embedded engineer to a cloud engineer with just projects and embedded work experience. A good employer should look at your work experience as experience with engineering principles and processes. Then they will look at your projects to see that you have at least a rudimentary understanding of the framework.

This may not be the case for front-end development but it has been my experience so far.
One thing I actually miss from themed channels is that they selected content for you, which is actually nice sometimes.

Yes, sometimes you just want to watch a specific show and you want to watch it now, and the streaming services are great for that.

But sometimes you just want to turn on the TV and watch something, anything, without really making a choice. I still have cable because it's included in the rent, and sometimes it's nice to just switch the channel to FXX or something and get maybe an old episode of the Simpsons, or a new episode, or maybe some Family guy, or maybe an old episode of some other comedy series, or maybe something completely new.

And that's nice and has value, but streaming services absolutely suck at that, because you always have to make a choice yourself with them.
Are there email clients that group emails by sender in the same way that messaging clients do? I realized recently that an email client structured in this way could encourage long-form messaging similar to what Pony aims to do, though such an email client would still lack the once-a-day dynamic.

Alternatively, Pony could maybe piggyback on email by providing an email address that proxies to each Pony account.
> In the UK: Covid will dimish in importance enough for people to disentangle the negative consequences of Brexit, leading to widespread use of the Pikachu shocked face meme. Scottish independence will take a step forward, with a new referendum scheduled for 2023.

Very interesting, transfer of such a financial liability as Scotland from UK to EU may even offset at least some of the Brexit damage! Followed by more Pikachu faces, but under different flags.
That doesn't change the rules. There were already multiple threads discussing the technological side of things, you should have been here for them if you wanted to discuss it.
I lost mine for the same reason last month. USA. Stay strong, friend.
I don't get Disney+ at all, exactely because of this: if you want to watch Frozen 50 times, a DVD is a much better deal. You can get the entire Disney/Pixar catalog of kids movies for the price of a year's subscription.
I've never once heard someone say they're buying an apple product for privacy purposes.

You're starting out with the assumption that prediction behavior is objectively a problem. Most people are well aware that they are shedding tons of information, but so what? When people get weirded out when their phone listens to them do they seek out someone to solve this problem for them, or do they shrug their shoulders and ignore it?

The world is full of complicated but nevertheless clearly problematic issues where the how is challenging to explain but the why isn't. With corporate surveillance the how is easy to explain but the why is not. There isn't some measurable harm inflicted, and most concerns are hypothetical in nature. Just because something feels vaguely weird doesn't mean it must be a problem, it just means you're not used to it.

It's like if you're arachnaphobic, you could conjecture that everyone who doesn't take precautions against spiders is simply ignorant of just how many spiders are around them, and indeed its true most people are not experts on spiders, but the fact is most people legitimately don't have a problem with spiders, and in the vast majority of cases they shouldn't as most spiders do no harm.
Only if vaccinated!
- Covid still a thing, but much greater geographic divergence of vaxed and non-vaxed areas, leading to political and economic turmoil in those areas "left behind" and most impacted (more fun from Trump counties). Folks find that WFH in rural areas isn't all that great when everyone's sick and your kids' school is always closed

- Because of push-back on supply chain and other issues, Biden and Harris are massively unpopular for 2022, which causes a greater split among Dems (similar to Howard Dean in 2002, who broke with CW to become popular). Perhaps it's a young populist Dem who doesn't talk about "woke" stuff but squarely focuses on the unrest caused by bad cops, bad protestors (including on the right), and bad econ policy

- It's been predicted since forever, but a major revolution about Jan 6 and Trump, which the press won't care about

- Meta as the new 5G; whole lot of hype but too bulky to be useful

- Unionizing begins to impact professional sector, as employers want employees back in the office as the labor market tightens

- As disenchanted people are sick of online conspiracies, a reformist Social Contract-like movement takes hold
Oh really?

Is that why we see non-stop covid news on HN EVERY FUCKING DAY!?

Covid is the most politicol topic imaginable but since it is a liberal thing it gets put everywhere.

Ban covid from HN and we'll shut the fuck up about this.
Yes. Internet has always been 30€ here in France, and nowadays 20€ per month for fibre. Mobile is 12€ for 50-100GB. Many people thank the EU’s competition watchdog for that, and it’s probably politically desired. It still didn’t create a Silicon Valley ecosystem, though ;)
> COVID cases will reduce but not enough to rescind mask-wearing rules.

In a lot of the US there aren't really mask requirements anymore outside of maybe hospitals. I moved to Seattle from Utah recently and the change in attitudes is pretty astonishing.
Or, I guess, upside down.
Speaking for myself here, but I much prefer to have USDC in defi than US dollars in my traditional bank. Far from a fantasy IMO
I've never met anyone paying >£100/mo for Sky. Is/was that a thing?
This is a great article.

I disagree with this:

> Now, when you have a decent understanding of containers - from both the implementation and usage standpoints - it's time to tell you the truth. Containers aren't Linux processes!

This is a bit of wordplay, I'm assuming, in absence of a word that defines the operating system features that power the concept of containers. To Linux, there is no (to my knowledge) concept of a "container". The container runtime runs your process(es) as the parent and uses the operating systems features to isolate it and restrict it/them. A virtual machine would just be a full emulated version of this, rather than using the operating system to virtualize the network stack. The author is right in that there is no such thing as a container, but only as much as containing is a thing you do, imo. What users think of containers are still just processes though, and I don't think that's an entirely useless abstraction to be cognizant of.
I use it still, with zero complaints.
Castles were built with military defense primarily in mind. Just because they were not constantly involved in siege does not negate that -- take the aircraft carrier example. Because it is a strong military defense, it doesn't often need to be used for that.

You can see hundreds of architectural decisions that were made with military aims -- some of them didn't work, and some of them weren't used.

But, whether staircases were made with the righthanded swordsman in mind is irrelevant. They were created with right-handedness in mind. Because of the placement of railings.