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Wouldn't it be better to try to sell a same kind of object in your own product and then make more money from that? Instead allowing use of objects from other places...

Every business loves a walled garden because they can pretend that all the customers will spend all their money inside it, but it's anti-consumer, anti-choice, and if the business fails then everyone loses all the things they own there.

Plus, if people could bring their own assets to a game then the number and variety of things in the game grows significantly. It's no longer limited by what the producers can build themselves. For a lot of games, especially ones made by smaller companies, that could be a considerable boon.
No. Reflection is a program accessing or modifying its own program structure. There's not need for it to be unstable, languages like Lisp, Java and I assume C# have clearly defined semantics for it.
Ask HN: How much influence do bad translations have?
Today a video showed up on my YouTube timeline with an automated translated title: 's werelds grootste getijdenboor (Dutch).

It is about a spring wave that is called 'vloedbranding' or 'bore' in Dutch.

I never heard of a 'getijdenboor' so I tried to look it up online.
There are a lot or websites with this word but they are all automatically translated. The word does not exist in Dutch.

So the translations of Google now introduced a non-existing word which spreads out across the internet.

I wonder how much influence this has.
unfortunately, we can't save everyone
> like people paying millions for an original painting rather than getting a replica made for $100k (or whatever) for their private collection?

The official art market action amounts to 50B/yr. Of the aforementioned figure the vast majority of that is then sent on loan to museums and thus produces revenues for the museum and passive income for the owner.

Let's say 5B is the amount that people pay yearly for paintings they intend to keep in their private collection.

Let's further say the average amount that a collector spends in a year to enrich their private collection is 5M.

5B/5M = 1000 individuals.

Of course we are 8 billion humans, you'll always find 1000 individuals who behave in a way that you cannot explain logically or whose actions leave you scratching your head.

> Original painting = thing that looks like a painting + bragging rights

> An NFT is just the "bragging rights" part of the original painting, and the JPG that anyone can access is the "thing that looks like a painting "

A person with common sense would not even think about splitting the experience and the bragging rights, or even re-arrange something as self evident and self-explanatory as watching a painting in a museum.

You are trying to come up with this explanation in order to justify NFTs and their price action, pretending to know what goes on in the minds of people who buy them, to further reverse-engineer the value that they see in them.

NFTs buyers not only aren't doing all the above reasoning, but they hardly know why they buy them.

In conclusion, there are some things that are just self evident, and need not to be explained. Even in the case of a person spending millions for paintings which will never be sent to museums.

If a common sense person is invited to some rich person mansion and are shown a private collection of real paintings worth millions the thought that come up is inevitably: "A hard working rich person who likes expensive stuff and is not afraid to spend to enjoy life"

If on the other hand a common sense person is invited to some crypto-rich person mansion and are shown a collection of hashes and blockchain transactions pointing to a JPG on twitter or imgur....the thought that comes up is inevitably: "A stoner cryptobro who won the lottery and now is wasting away their money paying 6 figures for some monkeys JPGs"
But battery is about the only thing you can replace. If your trackpad or keyboard fails, you have to swap out the whole top assembly. If your camera or display cable goes, you have to replace the lid.

Part of that is unavoidable as laptops become ever more thin, but I am reasonably sure Apple could make the keyboard replaceable.
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If you're a sufficiently intelligent person, you can frame said interesting things in such a way that it establishes your position w.r.t crypto. It's like a sort of chess.

If you're a sufficiently intelligent person, you can recognize arguments like "you oppose X, but you do not acknowledge Y. And Y exists. Therefore, you are disingenuous: you are not candid or sincere, you're pretending that you don't know Y. Therefore nobody should listen to you about X.'

Um… I oppose X. At this stage, not interested in Y. And I keep running into arguments that are trying to shut me up about X… by any means necessary, including flat-out sophistry of every possible description.

And this becomes an intellectual game. How can this NOT be fascinating to Hacker News readers? :)
> I didn't say it would be.

You said it would enable it. But the stopper about that implementation is not ownership tracking, it's integration. So it's an use case that's not enabled by NFTs, just an use case where you could use NFTs but also any other ownership tracking technology.

> If it's easier to think about, try applying the same solution to unique avatars or something, where the display mechanism is solved.

I can move my avatar image between games without requiring NFTs. Now, if you want "uniqueness", then again the problem is not solved by NFTs, but by some kind of DRM tech. What stops me from copying the image and using it? Or from minting my own NFT with the same image? Do you think that game platforms going to implement complex DRM solutions to avoid people from using avatars they don't own?

The overall point is a trend that I wrote in another comment [1]: just because X has not been done and crypto/NFTs can be used for X, that doesn't mean that crypto enables X. You might find that there are other issues that explain why X hasn't been done.

To this day, 99% of the times I see someone propose crypto/NFTs applications they haven't asked themselves the questions of whether you can do that (or a 90% similar thing) without crypto and why hasn't that been done yet. Possibly because when you ask those questions most of crypto use cases are not "use cases enabled by crypto" but "use cases where I can use crypto or other storage technology".

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29295514
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Or asking and answering questions on StackOverflow, for that matter?
> The Task Force found that approximately 25% of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented minor students earned their guaranteed admission into UC because of test scores. The Task Force’s report showed that test scores are better predictors of success for underrepresented minority students, first-generation students, and those whose families are low- income. Using recent UC-specific data, the Task Force found that test scores remain predictive of success even after student demographics are taken into account. That is especially true when compared to high school grades, whose predictive power has gone down due, in part, to grade inflation.

This seems very weasely worded to suggest that standardized testing benefits low income, first-generation and minority students, but since it doesn't actually say that in a straightforward way I'm left feeling that in reality it doesn't. Which would make sense, and is probably the main reason for this change.

Am I just being too suspicious?
https://archive.md/kkBqZ
Amazon not so long ago worked without JS, or Ebay, I can't remember.
>while Linux itself was a target of a lawsuit a decade later thanks SCO.

The dust was settled then, Google and all were on linux. Compared to BSD era. Not to mention the legal threats were not in the same order of magnitude.
Could someone explain how it's better than say, a regular indian wet grinder?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-F8zL3Ufi4

Instead of a what I feel is a "unitasker", you now have a tool that can use for multiple items.

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Off topic, but i love Alex's step by step discovery of a cooking process. This video is part of the make chocolate at home series.

For the whole playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLURsDaOr8hWWGebP8AGmA...
So cloneable cryptocoins is a thing? Where do I sign up wink.

IMHO cloneablitiy IS the problem, PoW is just a (very, very unfortunate) solution to that.
PoS (stake as in possession, not pledging) is IMHO inherently impossible, so PoW is all we got, now and for ever...
Github.com is down or not responding
I'm trying to access github.com from Slovakia/Europe nad I'm getting these messages:

No server is currently available to service your request.

Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists.
What do you gain by signing the response headers? Ctrl+F for "body" yielded only 2 results. Wouldn't signing the response body be a bit more useful or am I missing something?
What? How are non-union employees “innovative”, but union employees are unable to be innovative? Just because you are a part of a union doesn’t mean your brain shuts off.
Engine:

https://www.man-es.com/company/press-releases/press-details/...
“This is a massive milestone as these engines will be the largest methanol-burning engines ever constructed. They will be based on their well-proven 50-bore counterpart, which has already been in our engine portfolio for some time gathering more than 100,000 running hours on methanol alone."

"Methanol as Motor FuelSummary Report" IEA-AMF, page 31 for Marine Application:
https://www.iea-amf.org/app/webroot/files/file/Annex%20Repor...
It seems many of these ideas stem from failures of USA's political system. That is entrenched players fighting against government breaking their hold on their profit models even if that would be net benefit for general population. See taxation and even access to law, which I heard cost something 650$ a month from private provider.

For example Finland already have laws online accessible for free: https://finlex.fi/en/

And Finland probably isn't only country doing this.
Your post comes off strongly as cultish/MLMish. Sorry I don't know how to phrase it so it doesn't come as a personal attack. Most of the crypto posts sound like it.

> This is because they just see the blockchain as an inefficient database

I think it's crazy that you feel this way, I can only speak for myself and a few others, but we do in fact fully understand it and why it works this way.

Satoshi is not some god that has come to save us. He saw something that fraction of people in society consider to be a problem and attempted to solve it. He did not consider complex ways that his solution would interact with the society. A lot of us think that crypto causes more problems than it solves.
next question would be why governments themselves don't develop those drugs. I'm for the free market however bad it's in this case, unfortunately/fortunately it's the best instrument we got
chuck up != up chuck
As a .NET veteran, if anything .NET is 10x more relevant now that it's cross-platform... you don't need Windows to develop, you can containerise your apps and run it anywhere, it's significantly better now than in the old days (anyone remember debugging GAC issues?)

C# is still one of the best languages I've used, which is the reason why I've kept at it for so long - e.g. it got async/await semantics in like 2012 (just after F# did). I'm about to switch jobs to a company that uses Typescript/Node after years in .NET and I feel like I'm going to miss quite a lot of the development experience. I'm not sure which alternatives are necessarily better but again I haven't spent a significant amount of time with, for example, Golang or Scala. Swift was kind of equivalent but (AFAIK) missing some features and the vastness of the nuget package ecosystem.
Thanks for the info, much more helpful than the usual outrage and cynicism.
I had to raise two kids so I couldn't find time to master both the Linux and Windows ecosystems so I chose the one they use at work. These days Microsoft has made me think more carefully about choosing platform and with their new proposals, Win11 and Edge The E-commerce Browser, I'm ready to jump onto Linux but how would I program that environment, when I have almost no experience in C? For me, the answer is .net.

Thank you, Microsoft, for showing me a way out.
Like I said, this is a very superficial view of QoS.

And I'm surprised OpenBSD only did the bare minimum.
But insanely rich people have a god given right to get more rich at any cost. If the poors stop getting fucked over, Musk might have to … do nothing. It doesn’t matter to him financially, he’s just a massive piece of shit.
Yeah. I see one person I know and have forwarded the blog post to them.
Software benchmarks are super subjective. Michael Larabel at Phoronix and Isaac Gouy of the benchmark game have done a lot in this area. But everyone says you need to take it with a gain if salt (which is often true).

There's also TPC-C benchmark suites where people benchmark their own software and claim results. Not really independent journalists there.
I don't think you quite grasp that people are already building blockchains for government use. You keep saying "why haven't they done it yet then?" while they are actively working on it. I don't know why it took so long, but it's happening now.

Once you have verifiable "truth" in a system, it becomes a lot harder for it to become corrupt. "The emperor has no clothes" modality stops being profitable because there's a constant red blinking light re-assuring people that, in fact, he doesn't have any clothes on. If a central authority clearly goes against the protocols of the system, for a more realistic example: the police decide not to arrest someone who is proven to have stolen $10 million from someone, the system disintegrates due to it clearly and verifiably not being respected.
This sounds a lot like “cooperative multitasking”—I thought we were pretty convinced that’s not a great idea? (e.g. Classic Mac OS)
Not true. I was in a union and received merit raises in addition to normal cost of living increases.
uber was not perfectly legal in all jurisdictions at all times. I would guess they were operating illegally in almost every jurisdiction when they began operating there. They in fact had teams dedicated to illegal activities in specific regions. There's an article about that here by Mike Isaac who also wrote a pretty good book about Uber: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-...

It seems like if we ought to be waiting for the state to fix payment processors, we should also be waiting for them to fix taxis, instead of operating illegal "ride share" apps.

My argument isn't about Bitcoin because Bitcoin isn't a technology that provides cheap settlement of dollars. Other technologies do though, and they additionally avoid the need to pay e.g. 3.6% (!!) to Stripe, which seems like it makes them worthwhile on its own.
Twitter founder is the best example right now. Those people are omnivorous.
The speed-up very much depents on the (micro)benchmark in use. I did some measurements using the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite which includes both micro and larger benchmarks and got an overall speed-up (geometric mean of factors) of only 2% on x86 and even a little speed-down on x64.

See https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Mono-CLR-really-slower-than-Cor... and http://software.rochus-keller.ch/Are-we-fast-yet_results_win... for the details.
It depends on the stairlift model, there are very compact versions, the kind with two or three pipes as guide take some 15-20 cm of the width of the stairs, and usually (not always) the chair/seat (which is foldable) can be "diverted" laterally.

About the 80 cm space required by this Vertiwalk thingy, it is roughly what a mini-elevator would need.

There is a (specific) pneumatic mini-lift that is 75 cm diameter:

https://www.vacuumelevators.com/home-elevators/

Of course this is not suited for a wheel chair, the passenger must be standing, you need 1,30/1,40 m to be wheelchair accessible.
Check the techempower benchmarks mentioned all over any .NET performance article. They beat on Linux nearly any other tech stack in the performance game. NFRs like debugging, monitoring, etc are all there.

From my personal perspective, roughly 75% of all applicable (non-Windows-UI) .NET greenfield project go straight on Linux. The brownfield/maintenance situation is surely different. Companies are not married to the Windows stack when you get the alternative for free. And R&Ds just follow that.

.NET is on Linux and performs excellent there.
I disagree. Of course you can't just give (or receive) crypto to anybody. However, moving crypto between two crypto-aware parties is simple and fast. Definitely easier than using the "system" (especially if your are not part of it; consider how difficult is to open a bank account).

So I will be more specific and say that it is a revolution for the people that use crypto. I don't know if it will be a revolution for the general population but my belief is that it won't be. The "system" will find ways to crush crypto then it starts to become more popular. Right now it doesn't care that much ...
Great stuff, wonder how he convinced the team to drop the "for free" academic HPC/Slurm mess in favor of costly cloud computing. That is my biggest hurdle working at a university right now.
> [About personal internet service at home] So, if your employee is going to have that facility anyway, then is it fair for you as an employer to derive the benefit without paying for it?

I know it's a technicality, but for me it's super clear that employee's machine is client to the employer's network, so it's straighforward: it's employee using his own service.
I'll be doing the opposite, trying to do it in Go for the first time - it's a language I've been wanting to learn. Probably a bad decision to do the challenges with the overhead of learning Go at the same time, but it'll still be fun :)

It's at least good to hear that Go is a competetive option!
Any idea how to fix keyboard input switching, which doesn't respect each app's language? There is an option to keep each app's text input source, but it works only when an app has a text input field focused. It's my only serious issue with macOS for 17 years now.
Because it isn't in their interests. They aren't running a charity.

A good plan should never have "and then people act against their own interests" as a step.
No, those aren't real people. However some faces generated by an AI may look like people in real life. It's almost impossible to always generate totally unique faces.

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with that API.
Withdrawal as in obtaining cash? Most payments don't use cash so it seems like a bit of a red herring.
Ever think that it’s not your coworkers that are useless? Maybe turn the lens inward. The only common pattern i see over your 30-year experience is you.

Maybe instead of blaming unions for your current situation, ask why haven’t you left your current job?
The 2008 American and the Indian tests were done at a low altitude where they didn't affect any satellites and fragments deorbited quickly. Not comparable at all.

The American test in the 80s was comparable.
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If anything, Julia language would be a better fit[1] for the new mathematical system. Its syntax is friendlier to the mathematical constructs than of Python. Not to speak about the speed.

[1] https://juliasymbolics.org/
Many of the major powers have destroyed satellites in orbit - the USA as as early as 1985 and as recently as 2008, China in 2008, India in 2019. Russia's show of force is nothing special.
It is just normal consumers doing things that are already accepted, even if not explicitly declared. For taking any substantial amount of money out of a bank anywhere in the world, there are tight controls and nobody can sell oil or deliver large stolen money trough crypto. But how it is different that a person can directly buy an Xbox game with crypto instead of buying it from a reseller? The reseller already did the same thing - somehow move USD to another country, buy the game and sell it inside the country. I'm saying that the crypto is just removing some proxies and traditional processes and is not providing any new way of doing bad things that were not possible before crypto.

It's like saying that Uber is causing global warming. If you really care about global warming, just regulate using cars and force EV. If for whatever reason no one cares about regulating cars and everybody already uses them, disallowing an electronic method of renting cars does not fix any real problems.

If you think anyone cares about these use cases, why a company like Apple does not simply block Iranian network providers on iPhones to prevent any illegal selling of iPhones here? There are a many many people in Iran that are using iPhones and other products that are not supposed to be used here, all of which are imported using the same methods that I said exists and are being used. Does allowing use of such products "money laundering and corruption" and you are hoping for Apple managers to end up in jail? The services I said are being used are all of the the same kind, normal services used by normal people. That's not even considering the debate that does a country like USA has the right to define what is a crime in another country or not.
"In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true, without conveying any information apart from the fact that the statement is indeed true. The essence of zero-knowledge proofs is that it is trivial to prove that one possesses knowledge of certain information by simply revealing it; the challenge is to prove such possession without revealing the information itself or any additional information." (Wikipedia)

The "abstract examples" part of the article actually does a pretty good job of explaining the concept in a way I haven't encountered before, so I'm glad you asked this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
Yes, this certainly sums it up well.
Almost everyone selling on Amazon knows that they have almost no recourse.
Out of curiosity how do you estimate this comparison:

> Amazon Alexas burn more energy in a year by sitting idle in people's homes than the entire Bitcoin network does
As an engineer you're probably comfortable using the open source version indefinitely. However once a VP hears about free software being used they'll move quickly to make sure a few million dollars are spent so that everyone can act very serious about the software.

I'm half joking, but this is essentially the enterprise software sales model (or more likely you charge millions up front for bad software that isn't open source).

The less smarmy answer is so that companies have support contracts and someone to point at when things go wrong.
It just assumes that more heat needs more fuel therefore more cost. It's a finite resource. What you do with the heat is irrelevant
No, just converting crypto coins into real currencies. I wrote it in the first comment.
>similar things from Asia on YT

Got any pointers?
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For the parsing I used a PEG parsing module (of GNU Guile). That made it really safe and precise, but also cost much more time than fumbling around with regex. I am more comfortable with my code being probably correct and for a work problem, I would rather use a grammar and parser than some elaborate regex mess in many cases. So I did the same in AoC. This meant however, that I fell behind. Once that happened, I did not continue for long. Coworkers also stopped a bit earlier. Lets see how far I can go with solving this year's puzzles. Hopefully I can share the joy of collecting stars with anyone I know.
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There are bitcoin ATM s where you can withdraw real money without any of these things.
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