skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto provides a global pool of capital, and smart contracts provide a universal interface for establishing programmable rules for how capital is managed.

This is a sea change akin to the discovery of double-entry bookkeeping or the common stock corporation. You may reside in one jurisdiction your entire life, but the whole point of the internet is to connect humanity. You have no doubt interacted with hundreds or thousands of people in your lifetime online that reside in other states or countries than yourself.

If you want to coordinate with people across jurisdictions to create a venture or a charity or a political movement or a software start up or a video game project or create an artistic franchise, traditionally you need a pre-established relationship to do so. Because one person ultimately has to be in charge of finances if capital is involved. This creates a touchy situation. What happens if your partner in China or Argentina or Zimbabwe wants to custody the funds? You need to not only trust the person to be the treasurer and not run off with the money, but also the local banking laws and rules guarding those bank accounts. This makes coordination across distances difficult and unpredictable and fraught with risk.

Contrast that with placing those funds in a multisig, where you and your 3 teammates (from 3 different countries) all must sign-off on every expenditure from that multisig smart contract. Maybe you're ok with 3 out of 4 signing off on expenditures, that's fully customizable, since it's all code. You can also effortlessly swap between different currency pairs, whether that be Ether, or Bitcoin, or USDC, or Japanese Yen, and reinvest the treasury into yield generating strategies (since there is demand for on-chain loans and there does exist permissionless 24/7 on-chain money markets).

Now, don't lose sight of the big picture, because there's 7-8 billion human beings on this planet, and currently it is nearly impossible to coordinate, raise, and manage capital in a meaningful way for the vast majority of these humans. This is unlocking the capital availability of Silicon Valley for the whole world.
I agree, his performance is good. Also, this film is closer to Vanilla Sky in type than the others I listed.
What if your target demographic is on those sites, and/or you use Instagram not for fun/entertainment but for business purposes because in this age >90% of your target audience is there and very few are going to visit your website in this age?

Many people aren't fans of Insta/FB but they need to use it for reaching their audience.
Agreed, definitely doesn't count. This nudges in \Theta which does surprise me a little
U.S., according to the page the commenter linked.
This is a really good idea, and the technique I use to split my personal and work related stuff. I like the idea of using it to separate concerns further. I think I’m going to try this!
Curious: Do you always disregard anything coming from right-wing media news outlets? Coming from a European this seems like a massive omission in news input, which logically seems to lead to echo chambers and polarisation. There's tons of things on both sides that get ignored completely just due to the source and it's frightening to look at. Wouldn't hurt to have a look every now and then and keeping the objective eye open?
Exactly. If private keys were that much better for the average, shouldn't some common services use them now?
>centralized systems

It bothers me when people talk about (de)centralization because I think it's more ambiguous than appears at first and the definition needs to be examined more closely.

Things "on the blockchain" may be physically decentralized, and may not be controlled by one entity, but aren't they usually logically more centralized?

Consider real estate, which sometimes people fantasize about moving it to a blockchain registry. It probably seems natural to many people especially if they live in a country where that's how it works now, only the national government keeps the land registry.

But in the US, there isn't a national registry that determines who owns what. It's an oddity kind of like the absence of a proper national ID card or gun registry.

If we switched to a system that utilized crypto, it would be definitely marketed as "decentralized", but it would be a profound move towards centralization in a different sense. If the code had a flaw then everybody would be screwed, whereas currently we have this inefficient system with title insurance and so on, but if something goes wrong it's a local issue.

I can't be a true believer when I feel like the language has been corrupted and there isn't terminology to express things correctly so maybe people can't even think the thoughts they need to.
At least where I live, private arbitration is well appreciated: much faster, cheaper and reliable than the judicial system. So, yes, here I'd advocate most of the judicial system to be privatized.
As a backpacker, Nalgenes are vastly overrated for real trekking. They’re rugged for no real reason - you’ll do well swapping your nalgenes for dead simple 1 liter cheap plastic water bottles from the gas station. When they’re empty they weigh nothing and you can crunch them down. And they’re far tougher than one would think - mine are going on years. Weight and volume are the metrics that matter.

Nalgenes are nice for casual around town use though, they’ve got a great aesthetic and the stickers are fun.
"internal server error" and "error: 500" are EXTREMELY strong clues that the problem is server-side.

there aren't a lot of HTTP error codes, and it's worth remembering the most common ones, like the 200, 300, 400 series and 500 itself. will help you troubleshooting later.
yeah that's a huge problem with all of Gladwell's work. Compelling but unsupported.
No no, you are right. However, it was more like white noise than anything else, with the occasional word or sentence that could be recognized from someone talking too loudly.

But you know, with a little thought and effort, open spaces don't have to be loud. This was covered on HN years ago: https://m.signalvnoise.com/library-rules-how-to-make-an-open...
Wait, so direct debit and iDEAL together account for less than 10% of consumer payments? That's shockingly low.
How early? My main is in the first 12,000.
It's almost impossible to compare the level of aphantasia people may or may not have, since all they can share is their opinions of their experiences. It's difficult to do an objective comparison.

That aside, I do believe I have some form of aphantasia. I was talking to an artist colleague about his process, and he said that essentially he just visualises something on the paper and more or less just traces the outline of the mental image that he projects.

At the time, I couldn't even begin to imagine what that was like. Then one day while I was half asleep, I suddenly was able to picture simple geometric shapes and even human faces on the white wall next to my bed. Like black and white holograms, they were seemingly "right there", floating just above the surface of the wall. I reached out and I could trace the outlines with my finger.

I haven't been able to reproduce that, and it only happened a few times during the period of a few weeks.

Ah well, I guess I'll never be an artist...
If genocide to you only means "mass killing", then I can understand where you are coming from. There's no turkey culture being eradicated, no turkey books burned; only food being produced.
My kids and I just listened to an entire podcast episode about Aphantasia from Wow in the World - they really do a great (and fun) job explaining science concepts and recently related papers!

https://player.fm/series/wow-in-the-world/adventures-through...
> I always go back to, who’s going to invest in actually building the new blockchain solution and for what reason?

blockchain is really hot with VCs these days, so that’s who. why? the rewards for a document signing product are large — as evidenced by new traditional companies entering the space (HelloSign). basing a new competitor in this space off of blockchain offers differentiation. despite being less mature or feature rich, you get prime access to one area of the market that none of your competitors can easily serve. that is, you get your first, profitable, customers way faster and they become a core source of revenue to build out from there.
This is my script to “clean up” a typical macOS zip file.
It assumes you’ve started by asking the Finder to “Compress” (which creates a zip file but one riddled with macOS-isms).

#!/bin/bash

zipfile=$1
if [ "x$zipfile" = "x" ] ; then
echo "$0: .zip file expected" >&2
exit 1
fi

zip -d "${zipfile}" "__MACOSX*"
zip -d "${zipfile}" ".DS_Store"
zip -d "${zipfile}" "*/.DS_Store"
unzip -l "${zipfile}" | sort -k 5
exFAT works pretty well. In the past I have used UDF (yes, usually for DVDs) in external hard disks until exFAT support became common.
There's a few arbitrary codes/conventions to learn at the start. My take is not to look too deeply into them - every DSL/framework has them and in ggplot2's case they only take a very short time to get used to before you have the flexibility and incredible power/productivity of ggplot2 at your fingertips!
Enron was not a scam until it was.
The concept of living simultaneously in multiple universes (other "Narratives") is explored in Neal Stephenson's _Anathem_. Within the novel, a key assumption shared by those that practice this feat is that our brains' predictive power relies on simultaneously traversing the many worlds created at any juncture in the Narrative.
Curious to know what you/others consider to be R's warts? I have my own gripes with it, but mostly love it. I ask because it's interesting to learn what's missing form a language, what other languages do better, etc.
Or, as an alternative, use wget and then press Ctrl+C after two seconds. Viola, you have a usable lisa.jpg.
Yeah. Although -- I should note that the article did mention it as well, just toward the end. I was just a lazy reader on my first skim through and missed it.

I bet upper case theta is too close to lower case theta, and nobody wants to put their new variable so close to one with such a strong implicit meaning.
You can hover one thing at a time, you can skim a page with your eyes very quickly. Making important information cumbersome to access is a terrible idea.
This is a good tack, though the key is the gmail account. Presumably, the perp has multiple scams based on the content of the account.

Presuming much of the media creation is automated, they could also have run the process once the gmail account was owned.

Testing auth from unexpected locations in advance seems like an easy way to get noticed.
Of course he should be allowed to speak, censorship or "cancellation" has no place in a free society. More realistically though, from both sides

1. Censoring people creates martyrs out of people that shouldn't be martyrs. It's much better to let them do their thing and give them enough rope to hang themselves with, especially if your think their view is so bad

2. A figure like Jordan Peterson not being censored is a pretty hollow victory. Just because he can talk, doesnt mean he's worth listening to, and often people like this do more harm than good for their cause by being inflammatory and being a target for opponents to say "look at what these people believe". I'd rather have attention drawn to a more moderate voice / version of his cause, even if I generally agree with it. Celebrity contrarians can get lots of attention for themselves but make sure their causes remain in the fringe.
There was actually a movie about this very thing. Miguel De Icaza had a cameo. The villain company was a thinly veiled replica of Microsoft, and the CEO looked like Bill Gates. ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/ )

In another thread a few weeks ago about code signing, I mentioned we should just hand Apple Source code for the apps it distributes in the store, to make review more thorough and reliable. Replies objected "Why would you give your source code to another company?" ........ and github is still a thing? ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28794243)
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who gets hit with password reset attempts. It's strange because I don't have a short username; mine is noticeably long and weirdly specific.

I've noticed that the reset attempts seem to come in waves. I haven't charted it, but sometimes I'll get somewhere between 20-30 reset attempts in 24 hours, and at other times, I won't get any reset attempts for a full week or so. The whole thing is very bizarre.
> Two years from now it is entirely possible that MOMA's NFTs are entirely worthless

I was trying to think of a good way to include this thought. The scenario I had in mind was that Bob turned out to be really good at keeping his servers running, while MOMA had a data center crash and bad backups, and so lost the way to prove their NFTs were issued by them. So Bob's became worth more because they were the only ones that were traceable to their origin.

> Both could be entirely forgotten tomorrow as it turns out that people don't care about art NFT and it turns out that COVID variant NFTs are the thing that has staying power.

NFTs turning into this decade's Beanie Babies is a real possibility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beanie_Babies#Collectibility
> Are they really visualizing these goofy versions of the machines? If not, why don't they draw them accurately.

Can you accurately draw something while looking at a photo of it? Most people can't. Seeing something and drawing it are obviously different skills.

What you may not understand about other people's mental visualizations is that they're somewhat fuzzy and unstable. It's very difficult to zoom in and out or to focus on the details. The better you know something, the better you can visualize it. There are also degrees of the ability -- some people are very good, and some aren't.

> Other people think they have a visualization but do not.

I know someone with aphantasia, and he was confused about whether or not he had it for a long time. I think this makes sense: you can't imagine being 100% certain you see something in your mind because it's a "sense" that you don't possess, so you assume other people aren't certain.

I assure you that you're absolutely wrong. I am absolutely certain I see things in my mind and that it's common for people to be able to do so (with varying degrees of stability, accuracy, clarity, etc.). Especially faces, I can see them very clearly. It is somewhat a function of memory.
Maybe a million dollars just isn't what it used to be.
How's it been going? Any advice for people who are also terrible artists who will need to hire?
I agree, competitors like HelloSign and Adobe Sign are pretty feature-complete and would have just as much brand recognition, and do have these same audit log features that specifically help with verifying the authenticity of documents in court. If I had to guess on why people might still choose docusign, it'd be because Docusign was the first on the scene and has the brand recognition - people are going to recognize it more often than if you mention a lower-marketshare competitor like "PandaDoc"[0]. Another reason is probably how the cost difference between competitors is such a low amount of admin overhead that it doesn't matter if you save a few thousand a year in costs or not.

0: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/22/pandadoc-the-e-document-st...
The best description of have scene of the pop psychology and pop business books is “knowledge porn”. Guns germs and steel is like that. Makes the reader feel the secret history of the world or some topic is being revealed even though it’s at least partially, or wholly, fantasy :)
I can't visualize complex things very clearly, but I have no doubt that I can "see" something simple like a white square on a black background, and "manipulate" it voluntarily. I can do stuff more complex than that too but I image if aphantasia is a thing, those people couldn't even do something that simple.
I've actually had the opportunity to practice a bit of zen meditation within a traditional framework (Rinzai Zen) which is very close to what Leonard Cohen experienced.

In my humble opinion, spirituality is to religion what 'passion for fitness' is to a gym. A gym is an organisation with rules, employees, a boss, location, history, etc. Some people go there in order to get a 'healthy person' identity, meet friends, and to make sure that their body image fits the attractivness metrics of the society in which they live. The actual experience of pushing iron and sweating is an inconvenient.
That whole site's content appears in need of a giant [citation needed] banner, mixed with juuuust stopping short of labeling covid a hoax. And the article of course chooses the tired "Sweden didn't have a lockdown!! therefor, and furthermore..." canard[0]

From this "institute"'s homepage:

Scientific and technological progress have stalled.

It hasn't.

There is no lack of funding for research and development

There is.

but our current systems disincentivize genuine risk-taking and innovation

For good reasons.

Also, odd that they chose "CSPI" as their name/acronym. Pure coincidence with Ralph Nader's Center for Science in the Public Interest?

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-covid-no-lockdown-str...
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/06/worlds-ha...

> "If you imagine a ladder whose rungs are numbered zero to 10, and zero represents your worst possible life and 10 represents your best, which rung would you be on?"

https://worldhappiness.report/

Alternative measurement method based on PERMA:

https://www.peggykern.org/questionnaires.html
Whether the phenomenon is of any interest psychologically (imo) hinges on the question of whether Reality Shifters are in a sleeping state during the activity or not (of course it's interesting socially that it's such a big trend in either case).

In the section where they compare to Lucid Dreaming it sounds identical to my mind (aside from certain trends in preferences for how the LD is set up—but a new trend in preferences for LD induction techniques is hardly headline-worthy).

Did I miss it or have they done any measurement of brain activity of reality shifters doing their thing?
I’m so happy these comments and conversations may take place now given we as software engineers have reached a saturation point where we are made up of those who are not just satisfied with a Java book or a Ruby book; rather we are made up of a body of members who use the tens of languages that are flourishing today in our programming stack.

I love it!
Z Library
I’ve used this for a lot of math and CS textbooks. I’m not sure if this has been posted before, so feel free to flag it if it has.
Or taken to an extreme view, hide/block pedophiles by all means and pretend they don't exist.
Bitcoin has had downturn of over 80% in USD terms in the past 5 years.
Was the account active?
This one is pretty easy but a friend recently showed me one (gallery of some sort) I couldn't figure out quickly which was downloading chunks in nonstandard ways and piecing them together with uglified js.
Here's the benefits:

Uncensorable. Permissionless. Democratic. 100% Availability (Ethereum has 100% uptime for 7 years). No $GME rug pulls like what we saw earlier this year. No Great Financial Crisis due to opaque liabilities (everything is traceable, auditable, open source, solvent, collateralized). Non-custodial. Yield generation. Programmable capital management.

It provides superior capital access and coordination mechanisms for not just first world humans, who also see a benefit, but for all of internet-connected humanity. It provides access to a $2.4 trillion and rapidly growing economy.

If you are a business and you need money in crypto and you don't live in a hostile jurisdiction like North Korea, Iran, or the United States, you can raise money on-chain. You can create a token with any emissions schedule, staking mechanics, profit sharing mechanisms, on-chain royalties, or whatever you can imagine as a programmer. And even if you're not a programmer, you can lean on tools that help to do that.
I thought you could re-download removed albums from your collection page? But can't find anything on mine to check with right now.

It's pretty incredible that in about a year they'll hit $1000m of payouts to artists.
> A game is played in finite time, on hardware with bounded operations per second, and AFAIK the NES is a deterministic computer, so the solution does not need to involve any algorithms -- it is simply a fixed sequence of button presses.

Glitches allow you to write arbitrary data into arbitrary memory positions.

So whilst it is bounded, it is bounded to "any program that can run in less than X time", which as far as I know, is beyond what we can predict within bounded time. The solver may never complete.
We all have this moment.

I'm not sure asking someone to draw "a helicopter" or "a bicycle" (inherently an abstraction) is a good way to get non-nonsense simplifications. It's like asking for "a face" and expecting something that isn't cartoonish? Also, I doubt all non-aphantasiacs can draw tolerably. That said, I do sort of assume it's a spectrum, and that there's a similar-ish 1-10% of people on the far end who visualize very well.

Perhaps if you ask them to describe their first bike in as much detail as they can?
it SHOULD be manual. you're foolish if you automate your red/yellow/green status indicators, or even host any of that kind of thing on your own infrastructure in any way.

the status page needs to be updated by a human that knows what the issues are, and not automation that will flag everything red the instant anything trivial in the automation fails.

you want static pages and images served up, nothing automated or scripted.
It’s a probably bug on your website.

HN uses the canonical URL tag on the page linked by your post.

This is often misconfigured to point the root of the blog rather than the individual post.
My experience of visualization is like this: focus on your peripheral vision, and that's what my whole vision becomes like--peripheral. Then another layer of peripheral-like focused vision is on top of it featuring things that aren't really there. it's unclear and always morphing
Yes it looks like a great replacement for network-scripts.

And at first glance, it appears to have better design goals than Canonical's (also yaml based) netplan.

Specifically the "transactional" aspect of nmstate, in which a config change should either fully succeed or fail, with a failure state is a rollback to the pre-transaction state.

The desired vs actual state dilemma and atomicity, is where most of these high-level network configuration tools fall apart in practice.
its a pretty large search space. imagine 60fps, 10min of play, 8 possible buttons every frame.
Their visualizations are fine but most people haven't trained in the fine motor skills required to produce a compelling image.

Visualization and ability to draw are separate. The latter can be trained, and I imagine that if I learned to draw better I would probably visualize more accurately, but I am convinced that the limiting factor in my ability to draw a bicycle is my lack of ability to draw and not my lack of visualization.
Well, there are actual signatures too, but that's just like the CA racket for ssl. Adobe and others just gatekeep it. And any type of key material is quite complex to manage, so it would never get widespread adoption even if it were free.
There is a large amount of speculation around the Craig Wright saga. One idea pitched to me was, "we buy BSV because it is priced as though Craig Wright is definitely not Satoshi, and the probability of him being Satoshi should be priced as greater than trivial." After looking into it for several weeks, I decided to stay the heck away from that kind of strategy. If the man turns out to indeed be a charlatan, this speculative investment will disintegrate quickly.