skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NFTs are a form of Status or Veblen good. This means being useless or grossly overvalued, exploiting craftspersons, being exclusive, prices defying reason are all good properties to have.

A physical world example is the combination of social media marketing, fast fashion and product drops. Items are sold for many multiples of their production cost due to a manufactured air of exclusivity and scarcity. As the items are mass produced from exploited labor, a bottleneck from time consuming highly skilled craftwork cannot be the cause of high prices.

There are many examples of conspicuous over consumption and status goods, all of them defying common sense to most. Remember the "I AM RICH" app? The NFT version is the same principle, merely on a different type of datastore.

Particularly relevant to NFTs is the art world of artificially inflated prices, donations to manufacture prestige and where fakes are hard to tell to the untrained eye and wealthy buyers bring lawsuits or otherwise buy the silence of those who can prove forgeries.

The artifact or artwork is not the goal, instead the ability to take something useless or mundane but somehow demonstrable as unique, prove provenance and flaunt wealth to some peer group considered high status is the goal. I suspect NFTs are currently in a gold rush stage and comparatively more open. When the loose flow of money is over, I expect it will decay back to gated elitism typical of the existing art world.

Underlying something like an Ethereum linked IPFS hash artifact are interesting consensus algorithms for persistent data-structures on open distributed networks. That they're being used in this manner is not surprising. It's reflective of humans, not something inherent to the utility of the tech.
Their approach is firmly stuck in the computing paradigm of the 70s and 80s, much like Stallman is personally stuck in the social narrative of the same era. The FSF and him refuse to change and adapt to the times.

But since reality doesn't care about their refusal to adapt, and they can't just throw their hands up in the air and say nothing is free any more and you should just live off the grid and reject all technology, they instead have built a deliberately obtuse set of rules to declare certain things out of scope, so they can maintain the illusion of freedom for their followers while making concessions behind the scenes (and even actively working with manufacturers to devise silly workarounds that fit into that framework, see e.g. the Librem 5's ridiculous secondary CPU core and external flash dance so they can claim the RAM training blob doesn't make their device non-free).

Then they're very careful to never talk about this unless prompted; the fewer people know about all these secret blobs they're running anyway, the better. It's basically cult-like behavior - this kind of control of the information and narrative that followers get is a defining characteristic.

None of this helps users, of course; what would help users would be being informed about not just exactly what blobs exist, but what the risks are, how they might affect their privacy and security, what update options exist, and whether they can be audited or replaced with free versions in the future. But the FSF doesn't care about any of that. They just want to pretend they live in a blob-free utopia.

Edit: Ah, the downvotes have started. I guess the FSF fans have showed up. I hope you're not using an off the shelf mouse to click on the downvote button; those all run proprietary USB HID firmware.
You have the right to choose. A passport gives others necessary information so they can choose.

Managing public health is difficult enough even without people forcing their choices on to others.
why is it a religious dogma? i dont see the point of hostility. they have every right to hold to those principles as long as they are not deciving anyone and state their values clearly. who are they harming?
Does this have much of a market? I mean coffee is about the beans and the machine/method used to make it, and doing it yourself can be a quick and enjoyable experience.

Isn't chocolate more about the flavours added and manufacturing process (although the upper end does talk about the source of the beans) - having a favourite bar or tasting different bars from different skilled artisanal producers.
So far they nothing reappeared that I have noticed. At least not the obvious ones, may a service one reappeared.
>The world is a much better place without enforcement of "ownership".

Then you will have no problem if I move in with you, kick you out of the house you own then charge rent on your house?
The original study, which the article nicely links: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abg5902

They had 16 different psych experiments (recruit subjects, tell them a story about a "victim", ask them about the victim's moral virtue). For 15 of the 16 experiments, the subjects were recruited online via Amazon Turk. I'd be concerned that Amazon Turk-recruited psych subjects are not even reliably representative of WEIRD populations (the point of crateless's comment), let alone non-WEIRD populations.

From their summary table, all 16 of their experiments (with various stories being told to the subjects) sound like "the victim was the chosen target of lone bad person". So - no victims of unsafe consumer products, nor of cancer, nor natural disaster, nor famine, nor systematic racism/sexism/etc., nor malicious or failed government, nor of war, etc. Extrapolating this study's results, to those types of victims, would be very difficult to justify. But (my impression) most of the current hot topics in the news, in public policy debate, and on HN involve those types of victims.

SO: The current title - "Victims are perceived as more morally virtuous than non-victims" - seems, in the general context here on HN, extremely overstated.
> Rollbacks seem like the key feature here and that seems much better left up to the filesystem, not the package tools.

It's not, at least not necessarily.

Let's say you try to change your system configuration and you fuck it up, you revert, with zfs your attempt is gone, or you have to go and hunt it down in the snapshot if you remembered to store that.

With nix/guix it's still there to be updated.

An other component is the intentionality of decisions: in nix/guix you can reach a point where the setup of the entire system is fully described and reproducible, in fact there are people who rebuild the machine "from scratch" (really from the nix store) on every boot, to ensure the system does not accumulate transient cruft.
No, not at all.

At least as many double vaccinated attend these rallies because they realise that tracking via QR code checkin, vaccine passports, manadatory vaccinations or you lose your job, mandatory boosters every 6 months, and the unvaxxed being banned from public life, are a huge assault on freedoms within our liberal democracies.
In the EU it is a year, and you may loose up to 150€.

Good luck to the bank which would like to enforce this. One tried, I told them I am leaving, they said it is a misunderstanding and that of course they did not mean to make me pay these 150€.
I love mechanical keyboards (mkb) but am not obsessed about them. Given a choice, I prefer an mkb over other keyboards. A keyboard to my mind is a means to an end, but not an end in itself. I do not understand people who hoard mkb's, but that's just me.

In India, the best mkb you can buy is a TVS [1], and I am a happy user for many years now. They don't market to mkb hobbyists (e.g. gamers, mkb collectors), but to heavy-duty users such as bank clerks. This kb is affordable, durable, reliable. What more can I ask?

[1] https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B07B75DVZS
Ask HN: Why there are no Android mini phones?
Although there are countless Android phone makers, there isn't a single one of them that makes compact phones. Sony was in the business for a while but it seems to lower the supply of the new models and mark them with super high prices.
That's very strange as there is clearly demand for smaller phones, shown by the iPhone mini. Apple offers an almost identical compact phone to it's regular model, but it seems that phone makers who usually copy Apple on everything, just skip this idea at all.
If anyone has thoughts on it or a compact model to recommend I'll be glad to hear.
What do you mean "except"?

Within the moon share ecosystem, moon shares have the exact same kind of authority.

Value's always worth what someone will pay, sure. But blockchain authority isn't more special than any other database. It has some fancy properties, but they don't affect the authority.
Tom DeMarco describes a method in Waltzing With Bears that's quite interesting: use a triangle defined by the three points as a rough approximation for the probability distribution, and then cumulative distribution function calculations are just juggling quadratics that you can plug into Excel.

Mind you, these days Excel's got the distribution function formulae in it that you'd need to do it "properly" with a lognormal distribution, but I like the way the three estimation points have a direct and obvious link to the result with the triangle method.
So many examples...
No it isn't. Since the internet became commonly available it is easier and less expensive than ever. It is however very difficult to get people to vote for you. There is very little voter engagement in the primaries when it is most important and effective.
Colombian president condemns police academy’s Nazi costume event
See the table on page 23. 2nd and 3rd columns. Like all stats treat with caution - see comments on p24.
I mean, so is Nelson Mandela if you apply the same standard (terrorism targeting civilians by the ANC).
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That's a very limited view of how unions operate. They aren't nearly as circumscribed in their activities and campaigns as you suggest.
There will always be a market for an expensive bulky kitchen gadget that takes up space in a cupboard and only comes out twice a year!

I would sacrifice that cupboard space for one, although it would need to be a little cheaper. I’m sure competitors will come out with their own versions.
This looks really promising.

I'm someone who's interested in making chocolate for the product, not the process. I know there are people who like the process of tempering (e.g. tabling), pouring it into fancy moulds and decorating something like a praline but I'm not one of them.

The existing process I have to follow is a pain. I use the "vaccination method" for tempering chocolate. I have to measure out 2/3rds of the chocolate, heat it to ~50C, then mix in the remaining chocolate and leave it until it cools to ~28C, then heat it back up to ~32C. After that I have to pour it into the moulds and let it cool overnight. The whole process takes several hours and I have to spend a lot of time monitoring the chocolate's temperature. It's not like a slow cooker or oven that I can just turn on and leave until the time is up.

I also have to source couverture. I'm have the privilege to be in one of the best places on earth to do that (Switzerland, I live within easy cycling distance of Lindt HQ) but there's clearly a wide spectrum of what you can do with the flavour of the chocolate itself and I have no control over it.

This product would make the process "set and forget" and give me more control over the flavour of the chocolate, so I have to say I'm all for it.

My main remaining question was about cleaning but the FAQ [0] makes it sound pretty straightforward.

If only they shipped internationally.

[0]: https://www.cocoterra.com/frequently-asked-questions/
> and his intelligence & experience are obviously immense

He was also fooled by Elizabeth Holmes.
I think that's the sad thing about it all. There's a self-righteousness about those who got vaxxed 'for the greater good' even as the vaccine fails to do its job, able to hand wave away 100's of thousands of people peacefully protesting as time wasters or 'anti-vaxxers' instead of considering that maybe, just maybe there's a concern or two they should actually be thinking about. Especially when the media seems extremely hesitant to cover or investigate further themselves.

The most insanely ironic thing happening in Australia at the moment is a small group of anti-protester-protesters calling themselves 'anti-fascists' as they oppose those protesting against a risk of authoritarian powers!
Now, that thing looks good, easier to maintain and cheaper.
And there seems to be bigger potential adaptability.
Something along the line of modular extensions for special disabilities.

Thank you.
I mean, so is Nelson Mandela if you apply the same standard (terrorism targeting civilians by the ANC).

How it seems to work is if said person aligns with your own political views (i.e. the ends justifies the mean) then war crime are conveniently overlooked.
In my country, they have recently started with jews-in-nazi-Germany fearmongering. It's incredible, how fast does the Facebook schismogenesis work.

"We all need to get vaccinated!"

"But I am afraid!"

"You are unsafe for your community and should be ashamed!"

"I don't want to be stigmatized. Why are you pushing this so hard?"

"You are now required to prove that you have complied to live a normal life."

"This is literal fascism! You are violating my rights!"

The fact that we have a number of unmoderated forums such as Facebook and YouTube did not help. It's okay to have a hide park on 4chan, but having a syndicated stream of uncredentialed nobodies who have just happened to win an algorithmic loterry was not a very bright idea. Especially since some have noticed that inflammatory and/or fear-inducing content is interacted with more frequently.
what does adapting to the times mean? FSF and GNU seem to be about fundamentals of computing and software. have these fundamentals changed?
If you just use pip & co, nix will be unaware of it and won't care one way or another. It will basically treat your pip-installed stuff like it'd treat your sourcefiles or pdfs.

Alternatively you can create derivations instead in which case the resulting artefacts will be fully understood and manageable by nix (I think there are integrations to do that e.g. tools like carnix which can automatically create derivations from existing language-specific packages, not sure if there's one for pip/pypi).
What does it mean to own something? It what sense does a Moon share give you any ownership over any part of the moon? If someone else goes up to the Moon and builds a lunar base on "your" piece of the Moon, does your Moon share give you any way to stop them? Can you sue them in any court? Does it prevent anyone in any way from doing whatever they want with that piece of the Moon? No, it doesn't.

Contrast with a token in your wallet on the blockchain. As long as your private keys are secure, nobody else but you can transfer that token anywhere else. Nobody else can convincingly represent that they are the owner of it. The blockchain proves irrefutably that you own it. The blockchain, as represented by the consensus of thousands of nodes, is the ultimate authority of who owns what on that blockchain.
They are deceiving people into believing they are not running proprietary software, while they are, and that software is just not evident because it doesn't live on their filesystem. Then they actively withhold information from users so they will neither find out nor be tempted to find out for some other reason.

If they were being honest, they would tell people that this dongle has a good half a megabyte or so of proprietary Bluetooth stack built-in (with runtime patching/update ability; they all do), and they wouldn't deceptively have a "TET-BT4 source code" link that makes it sound like the firmware is open, while it's actually just a tarball of the Linux kernel (which contains a generic Bluetooth controller driver, nothing specific to this device).

https://ryf.fsf.org/products/TET-BT4
Centralization is a continuum, not a binary condition. I don't think that Bitcoin is centralized in absolute terms—it's just more centralized than it should be—which is a normative opinion I have, not a statement of fact.

Bitcoin would be less centralized if ordinary people could mine it successfully with their home computers, rather than needing to buy specialized hardware. As it stands, mining activity is performed almost entirely by people and entities able and willing to spend the money to buy mining rigs. Not a bad thing per se, but it results in fewer people mining than I might prefer.

I think your explanation is a good one.
When calling banks and even telcos, their sop to verify identity seems to be to request you to read one of these codes
Here's an idea for a next trendy protest: Drunk people against restrictions on driving. Cuz if you're drunk and evil fascist 3rd reich billgates police stops you, then your rights have been violated.
Same here, I wrote an exchange core that did this using SBE. Basically you don't serialize in the classical sense, because you're simply taking whatever bytes are at your pointer and using them as some natural type. The internals of the exchange also simply used the same layout, so there was minimal copying and interpreting. On the way out it was the same, all you had to do was mask a few fields that you didn't want everyone to see and ship it onto the network.

Even an unoptimized version of this managed to get throughput in the 300K/s range.

Somehow it's the endpoint of my journey into serialization. Basically, avoid it if you need to be super fast. For most things though, it's useful to have something that you can read by eye, so if you're not in that HFT bracket it might be nicer to just use JSON or whatever.
You do realise the passport doesn't actually provide any information on whether you do or don't have covid, right?
I don't think "mini" phones sell well. The mere fact that there were "mini" models by Samsung (S10e) and Sony, among others, and there aren't anymore, and it took Apple many years to come out with a mini model ( who's copying who now?) indicates, for my at least, that there just isn't sufficient demand.
Ok, makes sense. Does that mean that you don't get the latest updates that are available in pip?

Also, what happens if you incidentally run pip on a Nix system? Will it mess up your installation?
I have check-lists for "Sleep/Recover", and "Shower or Groom". Check-lists got me started and gave me a taste of that subtracted anxiety.

Those are very much advised.
Not sure what is your ideal small mouse, but there are some good small "gaming" mouses though:

Xtrfy MZ1
Coolermaster MM710
Razer Viper Mini

I'm currently using the first one and it is a great mouse. No special software, no BS, very light, great shape, and a cable you don't even notice that you have. Don't know about the rest, but before this one I had Logitech G Pro wireless, and it was great, but a bit too large.
The vaccinated are getting the same restrictions, so it might actually be them this time.
From the PDF you linked. Go to Table 6.

First and second columns are shown per 100,000 people.

For ages 18-80 the cases per 100,000 people are the same or higher (up to 2x higher) in the fully vaccinated vs the unvaccinated.
You're not wrong about the incoming calls, but I can't figure out who you're replying to. Nobody above you in the thread seems to be suggesting that the bank ever call you. And certainly not call again in a short time.
Authority on the blockchain is validated by a bunch of different actors, none who trust each other but reaches consensus anyways.

Authority within the moon share ecosystem is validated only by the people who own the company.
Touche, mister, touche..
Despotism tends to be more efficient than representative democracy at decision making. Representative democracy tends to be more efficient than direct democracy at the same. Effectiveness is another matter.
The line between hardware and software has been heavily blurred in the past 30 years. The FSF continue to draw an arbitrary line where none can be drawn, and then say only one side needs to be Free. Since there is no longer any clear line, this gives them the freedom (ha) to deceptively do so in a way that is convenient to them and makes their followers believe they are getting some kind of special Freedom, when in reality the FSF is just tweaking the definitions to make it work.

Then they spin narratives about how this is important for not just freedom, but also security/privacy/etc, while their policies have absolutely nothing to do with improving users' security or privacy, as is made evident by the linux-libre issue, among many others. Actual assessment of the privacy/security impact of proprietary firmware on users is a much more nuanced topic, but the FSF are not interested in nuance, they just say "blobs (that you can see) bad".
People don't even try. Turnouts in the primaries are dismal. And most states have early voting periods. Texas has 10 days of early voting. My state has 20.

If it is difficult to vote, that just shows how important it is.
It all feels too eerily familiar to those dismissing privacy concerns because 'well if you don't have anything to hide you shouldn't be worried.'

As if vaccine passports and mandates etc would be used for anything not positive and helpful to the public...
The million-dollar drug (2018)
SEC imposes $18m fine on internal fund that invests wealth of McKinsey partners
> This is just your arbitrary preference

It's not arbitrary since it's possible to write your function using mine but not vice versa. If you disagree then please implementing the following function without casting:

def convertDiv(f: (Int, Int) -> Optional[Int]): (Int, NonZero[Int]) -> Int

> You're just trying to justify a convention of doing this check before rather than later

The convention that callers are responsible for upholding the preconditions of the functions they call is well established: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_by_contract. You obviously can't fix precondition violations by checking the result after the fact.

> Also Your unsafe version is again worse because it will trigger an exception on zero

That is the point of the unsafe version, yes. Sometimes you will statically know the argument is non-zero e.g. NonZero(3). If you want to avoid an exception then use the safe version.
Gravatar has been a thing since 2007.
The website is really impressive.
>yet only corporatist candidates will fly under D or R

Not true. Non-corporate candidates run in the primaries all the time. No one votes for them or even bothers to show up, despite the early voting periods most states have. Texas has 10 days of early voting. My state has 20.