skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The digital piece can disappear when you still have the ownership and there's still nothing the owner can do about it.
Open Source in this scenario is a bit of a canard.

It doesn't matter that much.

And cost is less of an issue either: the cost of an OS per person is about the cost of a single support call to IT, so if an OS can make things 'just that much easier' it's worth it.

I think the most important issue aside from the direct comparables is switching costs. If you get tied into an OS, then there's too much leverage.
Try hacking Microbiome with different kinds of Probiotics. The gut brain axis is two way. Thus you may be able to lessen autism spectrum dissorder symptoms via Probiotics.

Research articles
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28686541/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34062986/

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2019.0050...
In Praise of Enron?
It is really interesting how social graphs can be used so easily to construct likely accomplices and more

I don't see any issue with this, civilians need to understand it is likely. It is comical that Facebook goes to state actors to remind them that it's against their terms of service. Suggests they don't know or care to know which accounts are fake, only that they saw the LAPD manual.
What makes you say that? I find Stadia works really great for me as a gaming platform. I don't have any issues with lag and I like not having to have a noisy console in my living room. The only issue with it is the limited library, but that's not inherent to the basic idea.
From my experience, many of the problems can be solved by spending time on extended introspection. The problem with authorities is that they often don't have a firsthand experience of the problems itself.
So is the NFT acting like a password to the service? Do you have a way to revoke access in this scheme? (For example an abusive user)

How would NFT access work for a service which requires monthly or usage based billing? (As this seems like a one time payment currently)
And neither does the Blockchain have provenance of... anything really.
I don't see why not. Typing on Android has been an unceasing exercise in frustration ever since the real Swype and HTC keyboards went defunct. I made 5 typing errors while writing this message alone.
it’s not really a new concept, just a better implementation.
There are already laws about this: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/rights-to-light
The Windows EFI loader only loads Windows, and requires specifically rebooting into advanced startup to choose a different OS (and their mechanism for finding OS's isn't super reliable in my experience)
Is it not true that I cited a study that shows that people who are more educated have less sex and therefor trips this hypothesis up?
It is a shame the github page is full of silly comments; if this worked well it would be quite useful.
But looking on global picture and far in future with satellite internet - that is easily solvable, but technical issues on running those games in Stadia are least things that people are concerned about.

My personal preferences is owning a game library, because not always I play games, that require co-op or connection, but if the future is that you are opening browser and playing game from vast library of games on TV, for wich you pay subscription fee, then Stadia is on the right track. Actually, Stadia would be only one of many services and most probably that would be combined with Microsoft gaming. Looking in retrospect, most of the things are logical from what Microsoft was doing, but the question to me is always about if this is something I want as well. Looking on how automatic updates behaves on my Windows 10, it seems that 2022 is the year, I am abandoning Windows. And Stadia here is least thing I am worried about, because I don't.
> Engineers aren’t allowed “one small fuckup” when building bridges and buildings. Doctors aren’t allowed “one small fuckup” in the OR or when calculating dosages. These mistakes are grave and should be costly. Pilots aren’t allowed small fuckups when flying planes.

That's wrong.

Engineers aren't allowed to fail. They can have as many "fuckups" along the way, as long as they manage to compensate for it and maintain safety it's not a failure. Doctors... well, this profession has a group mentality of shielding one another from publicly acknowledging and documenting mistakes.

Truth is ransomware it utterly useless against a simple back-up and recovery scenario. Any competent engineers can and will deliver one if paid to. It's that companies don't see the point and don't care. As long as the insurance premium is less than what it will cost to implement such a thing they will keep getting ransomed.
Are you really sure of that? Why would it be useful?
> I think the big problem here is that there's no inertia to keep the place clean.

Huh? Isn’t the big problem the litter-ers and their littering?
They're expressed in the S&P 500, DJIA, NASDAQ, etc.

Edit: Going by the rule "your values are demonstrated by what you do, even when it costs you to do that", it's fairly easy to figure out what they are.
Windows and Linux are different products and the per-capita costs of Windows is trivial.

Windows is about the cost of a single support call to IT, so if it's just that much easier to maintain, it's worth it. Maybe it is, maybe it's not, but the cost threshold is right there.

It's the cost of a nice keyboard or mouse for gosh sakes.

The cost really shouldn't be hugely part of the equation, I mean, you want to negotiate for it of course, but beyond that it's mostly not the cost.
Not quite. It acts as an access token, in about the purest sense, kind of like an auth token in traditional webapps. I could revoke access by blacklisting the NFT if I really, really wanted to I suppose, but I don't in this specific service I've built, as there would be no reason whatsoever for me to revoke access to the interactive capabilities of my art from someone that purchased it, and never would implement such a thing.

Edit - For the other cases you added to your original post, I've thought about the subscription problem some and have ideas but it's outside of the scope of my current project, but I think it is a solvable problem with some underlying changes to token mechanics.
Sounds pretty not decentralized.
That's easy to solve, just do everything with elevated perms!

(Yes, this is a joke)
The neighbor is producing more than they require; the only light the neighbor requires from their lamp is what falls on their page. The rest is (intentionally or not) scattered abroad to the environment, where it is as much theirs as the leaves on the plant in their window which are blown down the street.

It's not stealing, because it's not taking, because it is possessed by no one.
And yet, they put ads in the iPhone settings app.
I think you underestimate the influence corporations exert on governments.
It is rotation invariant, so it behaves well under rotation, but I think it sometimes would give highly surprising/undesirable results.

For example, the center of mass between earth and the sun is deep inside the sun, IIRC, so it would almost rotate around the sun.

So, if you have the sun showing at the left of your screen, earth at the right, and rotate that pair over 180 degrees, the sun would stay put, and earth would move off-screen.

You could auto-scroll to keep both on-screen, but I don’t think users would find either a good choice.

In general, I think users would expect a rectangle with some parts cut out if it to keep the same bounds after a 180 degree rotation, or a circle with some parts after any rotation.
I suspected something like this was happening with podcasts. I've noticed lately that some podcasters have unnaturally short pauses between speakers (question and answer) or between sentences. It really annoys me. It makes it almost unlistenable.
But owning the NFT is not 1-to-1 with having the right to redistribute or having the right to transfer the right to redistribute. Are you keeping track of which NFTs confer copyright with the purchase? Or are you leaving it to the honor system? In which case, what is the NFT providing?
Normal distribution is deeply inapproprite for time estimation because it yields the same probability for 3x the estimated time than for the negative amount(!) of the estimated time.

Your second point rings closer to what we should be doing instead. We should put more effort into analysis and refinement. In my experience, estimation meetings where all tasks got estimated were almost useless in the end; and the most valuable meetings where when we didn't finish to estimate, but instead gained a deeper understanding of the requirements and of the domain.
This is fishy. Not that I doubt it did indeed happen, but my experience is that finding non-Tesla high speed chargers on a road trip ranges from tricky and inconvenient to impossible. From that, I conclude that this was a well researched stunt using a specific route that had such a population of such chargers. I’m pretty sure that if the challenge were presented that assigned a specific, random route across the country, a Tesla would win easily given the ubiquity of their charger network.
That’s why there’s Apple
> Then the piece omits the two overwhelmingly important reasons: cost and reliability.

Plus that not all industrial designers can create great designs. Often times when I look at e.g. my Bosch electric cooktop I can only imagine its awful touch panel was an afterthought in the design process. It's so bad, awkward and hard to use, it makes me feel sorry for those who created this thing. And for all its users just as well.

Cost savings? I mean, you don't replace the car's steering wheel with a pair of buttons - like on the hilarious picture in the article - just to save on production costs.
JFYI, there are largish condo's here (Italy) with central heating that were recently "converted" to new technology.

Basically on each radiator there is an electronic regulating valve (commanded by a thermostat) that logs the usage and that can be interrogated via radio frequency, a managing firm them calculates how much each apartment has to pay for heating.

Set aside the practical folly the system is from a maintenance viewpoint (not working valves, dead batteries, mis-readings and what not), after the first winter the main issues came out.

Till then people paid based on the area of each apartment, suddenly came out huge differences between - say - a central/south/southwest one and an outer/north/northeast one, in some cases the latter costed twice or nearly twice the former.
> Taking a picture of the painting = right clicking

Absolutely not.

A pic won't ever provide you the same satisfaction as standing in front of a painting, that's an innate characteristic of paintings.

Right clicking a JPG , saving it on your laptop and looking at whenever you want gives you the exact same satisfaction as paying 100k USD for the work of art.

Matter of fact it gives you way more satisfaction, because you got for free what a fool paid 100K to obtain.

The real world equivalent would be finding a perfectly conserved Banksy in an abandoned barn, keeping it for a while and then selling it.

You get to enjoy it for free and the buyer has to pay you 6 figures.

Thing is you don't have to be extremely lucky to right click, you only have to know how to use your thumb.

In conclusion I'd point out that even without NFTs , there is no market for JPG pictures, exactly because they can be replicated very easily and potentially an infinite amount of times.

The most famous JPG ever is "the Afghan girl" by McCurry. The original sold for 62,000 EUR.

https://tvpworld.com/50367201/iconic-afghan-girl-photo-sold-...

Nobody sane pays for JPGs because they are very easy to replicate.

Paintings , on the other hand are not.
Is it any more of a "magic incantation" than the linux-image-XYZ package which controls which OS kernel is installed? Or the linux-firmware package which controls what firmware gets loaded on various devices?

If you want to see when Intel issues new microcode updates, it is all available on their GitHub: https://github.com/intel/Intel-Linux-Processor-Microcode-Dat...
So Microsoft is tracking all your checkouts? Why would you want that? And it’s not push, it’s pull because there is no way to store all data locally and keep it updated.
It’s weird to keep using the Mona Lisa, when there’s a much more apropos metaphor intimately connected to crypto: NFTs are like naming rights.

Crypto.com did not buy the Staples Center, and doesn’t have the right to charge admission. They bought (leased, really) the right to have their name associated with it. Some of that has the force of law, but a lot of it is social convention too. Here in Chicago, the Willis Group owns the legal naming rights to a large building downtown, the building itself is owned by Blackstone, and locals actually call it the Sears Tower.
Giving cryptovoxels a little too much credit. Its one digital museum but there can be infinite other ways to display nfts.
The thing about cultural norms is that they're only meaningful if they're accepted by the prevailing culture.

Based on this thread, I would say NFTs are not.

So what exactly is the point of an "alternative form of ownership" that is only considered valid by a small subculture and not society at large? Is it really ownership in any meaningful sense?
My God, I think I was crazy. It happened to me in several hotels in USA and Europe, I had to leave window open in winter because it was unbereable to be in the hotel room, even with the heating turned off. Glad I am not the only one!
Transputers are still a thing from ST Micro, I think, though targeting the embedded market now. I got to use a Meiko 'Surface' transputer supercomputer back in the day. Interesting toy.

The i486+i860 combo I played with ended up being not particularly interesting. By the time it showed up, Pentium was eminent so the i486 was old news and the i860 was a huge pain in the ass to get anything like promised performance out of.
There is a question as to are the systems of mathematics that human cognition can conceive adequate to represent the processes and mechanisms of human cognition or equivalent systems. Basically - can we write 'ourselves' down and if we can, can we read what we have written.
Most of us are more and more dependent on our phones for more and more things.

I know I'm often pretty sloppy about having backup printed information when I'm traveling for example. And, while I do still carry a (small) wallet (really just a business card holder), even that is becoming increasingly anachronistic. Also maps while hiking, etc.
But at least some of the NFTs are endorsed by the artists themselves?
Unfortunately , as a fellow Gen X, "Boomer" is turning into a term for "older than me and a little more successful/further along in life". Hate that some younger people are calling me a Boomer, when we didn't have pensions _or_ 401ks, our families were gutted with parents divorcing, etc.
It's like options on a stock market. You don't own the stock itself.(part of the company) Just a link (with rules) to it.
why not make AI on the same platform as the human brain? what is so exceptional about it, and even if it is an exceptional material, why not just use it?
I agree with everything you said, except that Edge had a great start
Everything is tied to the present situation. My past failures could be someone else tomorrow successes.

But what about human nature knowledge?
I see. So you are advocating for property disputes to be settled by the mob. You're arguing for literal anarchy.
So when the person you tell to do community service says, "No", then what?

SF has no willingness to actually punish crime. The cops won't show up to stop shoplifting, bike theft, or any number of other crimes, and now you think there's going to be a trash patrol that is going to actually do something?
I think your first sentence sort of debunks your point. If gayness is randomly distributed then we might expect there would be a similar ratio of educated to uneducated gays to that of society at large. The fact that the ratio is instead biased towards more educated overachievers in the gay community indicates that gayness confers some sort of statistical benefit in regards to achievement/education.
Either this or do it Tiresias' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiresias#Blindness_and_gift_of...) way.
Yes, I'd read about it most recently from Garry Kasparov.

That example of the grocer who refuses to put up the slogan is excellent!

I'm not so sure the problems you cite for actual liberal (small-d) democratic societies are actually the same, although I agree there are similarities.

Trying to avoid the No True Scotsman fallacy, I don't think actual liberal societies are requiring false signalling in order to administer a government. To the extent that they are requiring spreading and repeating of outright lies, I'd say they are failing to behave as liberal democratic societies, and are instead and falling into autocracy.
> As soon as they start irradiating the heat all over the place, they are effectively giving everyone permission to use it.

Hmm I wouldn't agree with that. I think the Wikipedia definition [1] captures it more accurately: theft is taking someone's property or services without their consent and with the intention to deprive them of it. In the case of heat, you're neither taking "property" (and "services" would be quite a stretch, unless they provide heating as a service...) noor are you "depriving" them of their heat, so it cannot be theft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft
"Microsoft is sacrificing its reputation" their rep has been a mixed bag (and I'm being kind, but I'm quite biased, having worked for SUN and VA Linux among other places) and they always seem to seek trashy new ways to squeeze a few million here and there, if users say nothing.

Consumer apathy/inertia is MS's biggest benefit.
People still use Windows? I thought that was a 90s thing
> Aging is certainly a problem that needs to be solved

by that logic, childhood is also a problem that needs to be solved.
I have to get metaphysical to argue against the mindset, but IMO the origin of seeing aging as a problem stems from seeing death as the opposite of life.
> But we neither know how to engineer the drive that is built into all animate complex
systems, nor do we know how to mimic evolutionary pressure, which we do not under-
stand and cannot model (outside highly artificial conditions such as a Petri dish). In
fact, if we already knew how to emulate evolution, we would in any case not need to
do this in order to create intelligent life, because the complexity level of intelligent life
is lower than that of evolution. This means that emulating intelligence would be much
easier than emulating evolution en bloc.
Chalmers is, therefore, wrong. We cannot engineer the conditions for a spontaneous
evolution of intelligence.

this is the thing i've always sort of loved about philosophy. they just kinda make shit up, provide their own definitions that are rooted in a bamboozling by use of flowery language, and then once they've stated all their definitions with their conclusions baked in, they hop, skip and jump down the path which now obviously leads to the conclusion they started with.

it's kind of like a form of mathematics where they define their own first principles in each argument with the express purpose of trying to build the most beautiful path to their conclusions. it really is a beautiful form of art, like architecture for ideas.
>Nobody lends money for free:

Sure they do. Get a credit card with 0% interest on purchases and pay the balance before the interest free offer period expires. In many cases these cards to not charge any fee associated with the purchase.

I understand that the credit card company will still make a profit in many cases – even when they don't manage to collect any interest or fees. But the loan is free from the cardholder's point of view.
Certain places use more complex methods of counting heat used, exactly because you leaving apartment unheated incured additional cost on neighbours.

Heat is transfered from their apartments, so they must pay more for your comfort.
In my case, if arweave allows for digital pieces to disappear from the web, then that means they've likely failed as a project considering they've positioned themselves to be a permaweb.

However, interestingly if you leverage the token ownership for access, in my collection's case, even if the static image is wiped for whatever reason, they could still access the interactive service and see their art, and interact with it.

This of course has the assumption that I'm continuing to host my service indefinitely, which I know is a problem with my current implementation. I am planning to recreate my APIs as onchain programs, and migrate my app to be hosted on arweave. If it works the way I think it does and arweave doesn't fail as a project (which I don't think they will), then I'm hoping that I can have a service that is permanently accessible. I have yet to test that hypothesis of course.
This is in contrast to Victor Havel's essay on Communism, "The Power of the Powerless". Everyone except the boy in this story is Havel's green-grocer, who puts up a sign he doesn't believe in because that's how the incentives are aligned. Havel says that the only real solution is to not live a lie; it will probably result in more hardship for you, but it is the only way to avoid losing your humanity.

[0] https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-v...
Where does the code run when the computer is off?

Edit: I see the downvotes, yet i still don't know if it's a joke. I was genuinely asking the question.
No the assumption is that a logic system cannot be complex… well 2-SAT likes to have a word with the author I guess
Are machines all computation? Are all the processes of the physical universe computation?
No, you don't replace the steering wheel because that's safety critical and the superiority of the UI is overwhelmingly important. You don't get to sell the product at all with a defect like that, so the "cost to the manufacturer" is pretty big.

The entertainment system, or a phone? Not safety critical, no need to provide real-time interaction. Cost dominates.
Depends where you live. Here the apartments outside bathroom floor heating are usually collectively heated and paid... So actually not using the heat is subsidising others...

So heavily depends on where you live, what type of heating is used and if heating is billed per use.
and then many diverge from the celibacy part and for a subset of them sometimes that involved children.

huh, never previously thought about it that way. I could never figure out how so many children get abused especially from religious authority figures of the same sex, and the depth of the normie conversation is that "its because their brain is messed up there is no explanation worth considering because this conversation makes us uncomfortable" and it just seemed to me that the distribution was too concentrated for the "power abusing pedophile seeks position of power" answer, because I couldn't reconcile the "yeah but the same-sex part?", very high concentration. Interesting to see there are other externalities that contribute to the concentration. For consensual things between adults I wonder if that is common amongst the priests/religious authority figures on the same-sex side.
Buy Now Pay Later is yet another pink tax
This is like JSX for JavaScript. Love it!