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While always interesting to hear peoples thoughts on Web3, it doesn't really matter.

It's here to stay, NFT opened the floodgates and in 10 after the usual crashes and bull market runs, everyone will be integrated onto the blockchain one way or another.
That solves some problems, but not all. Games in the same engine can have totally different mechanics. Imagine an item that doubles the speed at which your health regenerates. Well, what happens if you use it in a game that doesn't have automatic health regeneration? It could just ignore that value, or should it double the effects of health packs instead?

Also, plenty of games use totally different scales for things. +10 to damage might be a huge benefit in one game, but a tiny benefit in another. The NFT could publish a value like "here's what the max value of the stat is in the original game" so other games could make it proportional, but stats might not necessarily have a max value.

Basically it seems like the only reasonable way to do this is for game developers to cooperate in some way, and if cooperation between devs is needed, the value of using a blockchain instead of a database + API goes away.
a matter of personal taste, Sir.
Yeah, I don't think RDP was supported at all on the workstation sku (though it _could_ be made to work w/o support or a legal license) and I think may have been an additional license cost on the base server, then only included on advanced server.
“Free trials should not require a credit card.”
I have a small project where I allow people to auto-translate their web and mobile applications. I’m using Google Translate and DeepL for translating texts from language to another. DeepL charges me $20 for every 500k translated characters. What I supposed to do? I’m getting a bit pissed off because I spotted multiple accounts who registered for the highest plan, used the whole auto-translation quota and quit without paying. Sometimes, users just misbehaving, and this is the reason why there are some dark patterns. Personally, I don’t use any. If you are looking for some decent i18n platform, try SimpleLocalize.io
No, no dedicated hardware needed. kTLS is super beneficial if you're serving static content even when using software based kernel TLS. And it only gets better when using a NIC that can do inline HW kTLS (like the Mellanox CX6-DX).

For static content (videos, large images, etc) that live on disk, sendfile() will bring them into the kernel page cache, and then send them on to the network. This involves 2 memory accesses: DMA DISK->RAM, DMA RAM->NIC).

To serve that content with a userspace SSL library, you now have to copy the content to userspace, encrypt in userspace, and then copy the content back into the kernel. So you add copy KERN->USER, encrypt USER->USER, copy USER->KERN. So you now have essentially 3 more memory accesses.

By using ktls, you eliminate the KERN->USER and USER->KERN copies by encrypting KERN->KERN.

With SW ktls, we see something like a 2.5 to 3.x speedup for static content on the Netflix CDN.

For inline HW kTLS, you're back to the 2 memory access case, since inline HW kTLS NICs encrypt the TLS records as the traffic is sent on the wire. So it boils down to what's essentially the unencrypted case. That's another 2x speedup, roughly.
> Eight years ago, former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers described the growth experienced in the years preceding the global financial crisis (GFC) as an illusion

I’ve always found it strange that our most valuable companies in the past 20 years are advertising companies. Shouldn’t the product companies make more?
It looks like they did open it up.
> By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be replaced by GNU/Linux

It literally says they are going to switch to Linux in the first paragraph.
I think we are on the same boat. How to do detect abusing the service?
Netflix’s Chappelle of Hate
> The problem with this analysis is that the rate of change of the world is accelerating; the world is changing faster now than it was in 1992. Fundamentally, this is driven by the fact that all the changes from the past cause further changes, in an exponential process

Any accelerating trend can't be sustained indefinitely. We know that the accelerating rate of progress is because of computers (which reduce the feedback loops on various processes which then help make better computers, and so on). When we reach a point where computers stop getting better, the rate of progress will stabilize. We've already observed stagnant clock speeds for over a decade. There are still worthy investments to be made, like in miniaturization, affordability, and heterogeneity, but without a breakthrough as monumental as the transistor we have no reason to assume that acceleration will continue.
Excitement cannot overcome a lack of exploitable natural resources at the destination.
As should be expected, Kasparov's logic is flawless.

I hope people get it.
did he just right click on a terminal file to open it （°0°）
This is the best drawing app I've used in a long time.

Please don't bloat it
> Web3 is best understood as a game, or a game of games. I don’t intend that as a dig: it’s a really good game! Vast and open-ended, deeply social, with lots of scores to tally … AND you can win real money?? I mean, that’s terrific.

That is the best explanation of Web3, it is like one of those Reddit April's folks events, just a social game.
We know what invasive species can do on Earth–what about in space?
I mean, all of these are plausible reasons to misunderstand/hate NFTs.

Then again, it's also possible that people who dislike NFTs don't misunderstand or hate them, they understand them perfectly and hate them anyway. And maybe you misunderstand them as well.

NFT is just a technology. It's entirely possible to understand the technology and still hate it, e.g. I understand what nuclear weapons can do, yet I still hate them to some extent and would prefer they didn't exist.

Not saying this is correct, just saying that you don't seem to leave open that possibility in your post. For the record, I don't really get NFTs. I mean, I kind of get how it's the same as autographs / collectibles, which I vaguely understand, but I don't particularly get how mapping that into a digital-only setting makes sense to people. But then I probably fall into some of your boxes above :) (I'm 36, I think blockchain is mostly overhyped though I do think cryptocurrencies specifically are interesting. I do think I'm open to change but who knows?)
MillenniumDB: A Persistent, Open-Source, Graph Database (2021)
Proof is in the pudding. There's this persistent effort to list the technicality that BTC can do "something" in terms of smart contracts, but the disparity in the real world usage of smart contracts between ETH, ETH compatible VMs and BTC would imply something is missing. Does not the Taproot update aim to solve this non trivial disparity in capabilities?

>incredibly ignorant

I don't think it's ignorant at all. Over-emphasizing BTC smart contracts in my opinion is pedantic. Where is BTC Defi? That is a multi hundred billion-$ industry in terms of value locked in contracts. If BTC doesn't have the equivalent, then its "smart contract" capabilities are not equivalent. Simple as that.
My parents generation lived through Polio. They've seen first hand what an effective vaccine can do for themselves and their children.
>There's virtually no utility for anyone storing the license of an asset pack on a blockchain.

A game engine built such that it can track games made with it that use a specific asset can have a percentage of the game's profits automatically go to the asset creator's wallet. So if you create some set of assets that are used by 500 different games, you're getting a very small percentage of each sale of each of the 500 games and you're being compensated for your work in a way that properly captures each game's success, rather than having each game pay you a flat fee. Wouldn't that be great?

I think people like you, who say that "there's virtually no utility to [new tech]" are just lacking a little imagination.
If decentralization isn't needed, wouldn't a merkle tree be just as good? It seems a lot more computationally efficient.
Would it be any different? The amount of mining done is related directly to the value of mining and inversely to the cost of hardware; the "efficiency" of mining a block doesn't matter directly. If you made it 50 times hard to mine a block (i.e. you reduced the hash rate by 50x), then you would most likely make each Bitcoin 50x more valuable because of the resulting scarcity. So if you could only implement mining in Python, exactly the same number of CPU / GPU cycles would be spent on mining as before.
You're probably not robbing it.

You're probably in charge of a government-backed digital currency and out to make alternatives look unreliable.
> In space, distance doesn't really matter,...

Travel time and therefore distance matters. Months of increased radiation exposure, low gravity, and calorie restriction is very different than a few days going to the moon and back.
The purpose of legalisation like this is not to promote drug use, but to ameliorate the negative effects of criminalising drug use. Right now in many countries drugs are easily available almost everywhere, plus we have the grievous negative effects of a damaging war on drugs that we have comprehensively lost from day 1, plus the criminalisation effort obstructs the ability to properly address the health effects of drugs.

I believe the most pragmatic approach is to decriminalise but regulate soft drugs like cannabis. This breaks them away completely from the criminal ecosystem. Next keep the trade in hard drugs illegal, but decriminalise use and possession of small amounts that are actually typical of users. This helps address health and welfare issues, plus if users know they will not be prosecuted, it drives a wedge between them and dealers.

We’re never going to end the drug trade. It as futile as prohibition. What we can do is implement practical policies to mitigate its worst effects.
Don't we have vaccines?

I mean sure an outbreak would be pretty horrific. But once the pictures start circulating, I suspect vaccine hesitation would evaporate pretty quickly.

Yes, yes, we should go far to avoid an outbreak, but would it really be so world ending? Wouldn't we just contain it, vaccinate widely and be done with it?
On sites where there’s anything close to a formal editing structure, the title is often not selected by the author. Sometimes the author may not know the final title until they see it in print.
Hm, if "ToF sensors" are LiDARs.. why does only Apple market them as LiDAR? Why are all the "3D scanning" apps only for Apple's "Pro" devices? How come no one knows that some Android devices can do the same things? I didn't know until this thread!
The books I have seen would never have been allowed in past years.

I saw an article this week about an NPR show featuring a book that was 'cancelled' from school libraries. NPR neglected to show the most egregeous illustrations, which included explicit sex scenes.

We can't move the goalposts. Some books deserve to be kept out of reach of kids. These are the types I have seen in discussions. Nobody's on the right is trying to cancel anything that would've been acceptable in 2000.
This person does B2B SaaS! Great comment and 100% agree.

Do you ever offer to extend free trial for people who want to cancel, and do you convert them back?
I learned about Abine and Privacy while going through that exercise and they have, indeed, changed my life.

Between that, Firefox containers, and iPostal (virtual mailing address that accepts almost any sort of mail), I have much stronger identity protection when I shop online.

Every recurring subscription gets made on isolated Privacy cards. Every website that isn't Amazon gets an independent Blur card. I now never have to worry about overcharges, data breaches, or my data being sold. The adtechs can have it; go nuts!
Sure but that's basically tautological. In a society where the end goal is making as much money as possible, a lot of undesirable things will happen.

I'd suggest the end goal is to create value, not simply make as much money as possible.
Hydrogen and LNG are used for forklifts the world over. That's exactly what got Toyota into this:

https://toyota-forklifts.eu/solutions/energy-solutions/what-...
There's a large, very well funded company building the path for Mars (and back). So there's 5000 or so SpaceX candidates already who have bought into the idea. I'd guess NASA would have a few people willing as well.

To be honest I think it will likely happen before 2050, but it also might also come and go before then as well. Getting to self sufficiency is a very, very long shot, and up until then something has to foot the bill which is where the endeavour is most likely to fall over.

In any case, we get to watch some cool looking hardware go up in the mean time - https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=54984.msg2...
Ah yes, like the radar detector wars!

> many early "stealth" radar detectors were equipped with a radar-detector-detector-detector circuit, which shuts down the main radar receiver when the detector-detector's signal is sensed, thus preventing detection by such equipment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_detector#Radar_detecto...
I work on a system that is air-gapped where we also maintain state and run ceremonies several times a week. It's a very different paradigm than the one we are used to as developers where everything is always connected and online but we found a way to smooth the process from a developers point of view. However sometimes doing something as simple as collecting logs can be a challenge.
I'm sure Elon is quaking in his boots. But hey, I've been wrong before so time will tell, I've bookmarked your comment.
Definitely. It turns out people don't like change.

No dog in this flight.
Multiple consecutive signups from the same IP address is one way.

But as GP said, this and other signals require coding abuse detection, and then you must find a way to enforce this.

This is not the kind of activity you want to be involved in while validating a product concept and working toward pmf.
I was just using generic examples.

However the way rails apps works with phusion passenger is exactly what you are explaining. I can run hundreds of apps next to each other on a tiny VM. Once a app is loaded I don't have to rebuild the state on each request, if it is not needed anymore (or rather another app needs the resources more) it gets unloaded again.

Setting up passenger, nginx and git for pushing is also a job of 10 minutes max.

I get there is a market for PHP, I too recommend wordpress when I don't want to code something for someone. I just don't see it's 'simplicity' as argument.
> predicting that most education will be online after everyone spent a year and a half discovering how terrible both Zoom school and Zoom university are is a bold (and likely wrong) prediction.

You’re probably right about Zoom school—it has sounded pretty terrible to me, too, especially for younger children—but I think the jury is still out on Zoom university.

I teach at a university in Japan where most of the teaching has been conducted online since April of last year, and we’re now debating what to do next year if infections stay low. (After a frightening spike in August, they are very low in Japan now.) When faculty in my department were asked their teaching preference for the next academic year, about a third said they want to return to in-person only, a third want to teach a combination of in-person and online, and a third—including me—want to keep teaching online only.

When I’ve discussed the issue with undergraduates in my classes this year, about half have said they prefer to stay online for many or most of their classes. However, they do strongly prefer to socialize with other students in person.

The reasons many teachers and students prefer online classes range from the mundane—such as avoiding long commutes on crowded trains—to the perception that, for some types of classes, online learning can actually be more effective than classroom teaching.

For me, the game-changer for online classes has been the ability of students to take part in classes regardless of where they are. Most international students have been unable to enter Japan since April 2020, but, at my university at least, they have been able to continue their studies online. After I taught a graduate seminar last year in which more than half the students were in other countries—Indonesia, Thailand, China—and all were able to participate in the discussions on an equal basis, I came to think that it will be hard for in-person-only universities to remain competitive in the future.
Addressing Common Concerns with a World Without Timezones
> perhaps we can make liquid fuels out of H2

We can make methane, which is a lot easier to store than hydrogen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction
Why Do We Use Yang?
ERC20 stablecoins on zk-Rollups could function in that role. Lightning not so much.
Banking is important. Without banking, weed businesses will still encourage crime (although primarily as victims.)
Your comment wasn't there when I speculated.

Sounds pretty similar to TLS to me, in my non-expert opinion.
Anyone on a surfboard would notice that the wind pushes them along, and a more creative person would think to amplify that with a sail.

Like what happened with boats => sailboats.

Heck, I noticed that the wind pushed me along on my bike. I rode without using my hands, and instead would hold my jacket open to catch more wind.
I don't really understand the difference. It sounds like you're saying the act of observation entangles you, and the entanglement is the cause of the collapse. It's just adding one more link in the causal chain.
Yeah I learned about it literally the day I posted that; it's a great little concept to pack in my mental toolbox.
This is why I've been using Spacemacs as my primary editor for years now: cross-platform support, automatic language detection, package installation, well-designed key bindings, great documentation, etc. Not to mention significant productivity gains from packages such as magit (it's always fun when people see Git time machine in action--using the n/p keys to move backwards and forwards in time to see every change to a file, along with the commit message).

And it works across all major OSes. Just copy your .spacemacs file to a new laptop, and wait for everything to install itself.

To be fair, I use VS Code pretty regularly as well. But more of a nicer alternative to TextEdit/Gedit/etc. to capture notes as I work in Spacemacs (of course, there's also the helpful scratch buffer).

[0] https://www.spacemacs.org
This is really odd comment. It seems you’re saying because it’s not the most racist hellhole, Americans have nothing to complain about. It’s my understanding that the reason America is not the most racist hellhole is because of these “woke folks”.
I predict that futurists will have their heads in the clouds in 2121. What's new?
Don't forget about the OG Ethereum framework: https://trufflesuite.com :-)
Can you please cite "demonstrably false narratives by the Right"?

I'm on the right side of the scale, I see this more from the left, TBH.
A decade in deep learning, and what's next
They both get muddy when dropped in the Data Lake.
Ford, GM Step into Chip Business
The Greens have been pro-legalization for a while but somewhat mixed on a national level because they vary from very progressive to socially conservative state-by-state. Their support for this is genuine but I wouldn't have trusted them to push for it if there had been any risk of resistance.

The SPD tends to be more socially conservative than the Greens (although the party base is extremely mixed). They only proposed a very cautious experimental legalization program during the election and mostly didn't talk about it. They're likely seeing this as a cheap win they can still pin on the other coalition partners if pushed on the issue by conservatives. After nearly two decades of grand coalitions, they seem to mostly let the other two partners do what they want for now.

The FDP may be market extremists but they've been using legalization as a major ticket to attract younger voters for decades now. Their shtick has basically been doing politics focused on big businesses and the extremely rich while marketing themselves as an attractive option for young voters by pushing reasonably popular progressive policies (as long as they don't interfere too much with the economy). Their primary motivation for legalization is likely economical (since the tobacco industry has been pivoting towards cannabis for a while now since lobbying for less tobacco regulation stopped working decades ago) but the kids will think it was a principled stance towards progressivism or liberty or something, so it's a double win.
its very true. I worked in a research lab in health and it was unbearable being around those people.

'we can't do that, people will use it wrongly' 'we cant tell the people that, they might use the information wrongly.' on and on again.

Just one of many examples was a trauma center application that showed all the trauma centers in the US on a map. you could see the coverages for ambulance and helicopter. I put in a feature where one could see the distance to the closest trauma center, as well as get directions. I was asked to remove it because people might use the information incorrectly.

to me, the problem is much more broad than this article suggests. its not just one phenomenon. lying and hiding information is built into their way of thinking.
> Then you should explain what they are.

I'm not a blogger or evangelist, plenty of people are and discuss this daily. Go find them on Twitter if you care, or not, makes no difference to me.

> If it's not a scam or cult, then just publish something on the web.

There are hundreds of whitepapers on the topic freely available all over the web. Every project worth following does this and there is no shortage of it.

Honestly your comment is exactly what I meant, just pretentious HN users who can't be bothered to do a cursory search on the topic and just want to be spoon fed information.
I’m sure there will be no confusion whatsoever with this name, and I’m glad the team did a simple Google search to confirm that it was clear to use.
Outside of Manhattan, certain streets in San Francisco, and some parts of Chicago it is life changing.
Both FreeBSD (https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ktls&sektion=4) and Linux (https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/tls.html) support kernel TLS. Though only for the bulk encryption. Stream initiation and certificate verification is too complex, with more regularly changing requirements and features. So most developers would still end up using an SSL library like OpenSSL to avoid having to directly use the more complex kernel interfaces and data processing dance on connection.
However, the thing that is interesting to me about OpenAI, AI21, Cohere, and all the other LLM providers is that they are broadly useful, and often helpful.

The thing I find interesting about GPT-3 and company is that they do say things that are "often helpful" but that "often" doesn't necessarily translate to "broadly useful".

For example, lately, I've been some car repair - I'm a strict amateur. Suppose I asked GPT-3 how to do X. If there's a 75% chance it gives the right answer and a 25% chance it gives an answer that could damage my car or injure me, I'd say the thing could 0% useful, despite being quite impressive.
I think it is best understood as a bunch of crypto millionaires sucking each other's dicks.
It's an obligatory warning, otherwise people (even here on HN) will decry your methods as mainly due to privilege, and irreproducible for the average perso.