skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From a skeptical perspective, I've come to the view that these things - NFTs and the crypto ecosystem more broadly - are highly pure examples of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positional_good

The price of NFT art is completely divorced from both the cost of production (human labour and NFT minting fees) and any kind of use-value. You're buying the social status of a thing that nobody else has, and the use of a difficult-to-comprehend ritual surrounding the process of purchasing serves to reinforce the exclusivity.

If you want art to consume, in general, there is a huge stream of it being produced. You could spend months browsing artstation, for example. Commission prices are relatively cheap; you can get quite a lot of work for less than $100, and $1000 will get you something very professional. It tends not to have a resale value, though.

NFTs however make the resale value a large part of their pitch. It rarely turns out to be true, except for the most sophisticated market participants, but that's the fantasy being sold.

To a great extent it's spending money in exchange for a certificate that you spent a lot of money, like the thousand-dollar iPhone app: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich . I sometimes wonder what the future would have been like had Apple leaned into that with increasingly expensive apps; at what point would it have stopped, and with how much acrimony?

Edit: a simple heartfelt statement from "caseyf": "I like collecting". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29403420 . That's basically it, isn't it? Some people really like the act of "having a collection". Stamps. Trading cards. Gacha games. Records. Cameras. Cars. Beanie Babies.
This question is loaded. It still should turn a profit so other than growth and or interviewing it also allows it to operate as long as it’s burn rate does not exceed its cash on hand. Let’s say tomorrow the government required websites like Wikipedia to implement an content policy to limit disinformation and they operated with no profits. Then there would be a crazy donation drive while they are going like mad to implement the policy for compliance.
I know one Indian friend in a renowned company who came in Canada as an International student. He completed his 2 year diploma course in IT/Technical support. After the course, he did not get the interviews due to lack of Canadian experience. To counter that, he modified his resume and added 2 fake experiences from top companies as Network Engineer. Within a week with new resume, he gathered 3 top offers in Ontario, negotiated and signed $70K per year with XYZ company as Lead Operations Specialist.

Not just in India, even in Canada, to make the top dollar and join upper middle class league, new breed of cons always game the system and use shortcuts. Once they join the class, they game the real estate market. Cycle goes on and on. They always win, rest of innocent ones who comply with rules and system are stuck behind with minimum wage job and renting single rooms, never get to ever see a dream house of their own.
> One interesting thing I noticed when I last shared it was that their server costs had somehow disproportionately grown as compared to the number of pages served compared to a decade ago.

There's probably much more video, photo and audio content nowadays than a decade ago. Not to mention a decade of historical revisions on each page.
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Vince DeVita said it was the main strategy in the 60s. Extend enough to find a new idea. Today things are standardized but if you fall out of the solution, you're given morphine and a bed. Which I find dreadful. Your friend life is a, pardon my french, interesting story.. because he managed to jump above deadlines but I can understand how spiritually damaging it is to always take your fate in your own hand every few years.

Good luck to him
There’s also a lot of redundancy in biology. A protein could be essential for cancers and non-essential for healthy cells. That’s the holy grail.
Say you have a map and a barchart in two different figures. If I select a province or state in the map, with correlated drill down the barchart also updates.
> reverting edits is supposed to be something of last resort

Not at all. The "BRD" policy puts reverting at the centre of the recommended approach to editing.
Easily.

>The Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory is a series of unevidenced claims centered on the false allegation that while Joe Biden was vice president of the United States, he engaged in corrupt activities relating to the employment of his son Hunter Biden by the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.[1] They were spread primarily in an attempt to damage Joe Biden's reputation during the 2020 presidential campaign.[2] United States intelligence community analysis released in March 2021 found that proxies of Russian intelligence promoted and laundered misleading or unsubstantiated narratives about the Bidens "to US media organizations, US officials, and prominent US individuals, including some close to former President Trump and his administration."

The article begins by immediately labeling the accusations “unevidenced” and “false” and then suggests that it is a foreign intelligence plot, an allegation which is itself a conspiracy theory. The article then continues to debunk the accusations point by point all in the introduction of the article, placing the refutation prominently at the top so that the only impression the reader is left with is that there is nothing to it. Only in the final sentence does it reluctantly concede that:

>The article's veracity was strongly questioned by most mainstream media outlets, analysts and intelligence officials, due to the questionable provenance of the laptop and its contents, and the suspicion it may have been part of a disinformation campaign.[8][9][10] It was later confirmed that at least some of the laptop materials were genuine and Hunter Biden himself said that the laptop could be his.[11]
You're not entirely wrong. I thought the same thing. The info is buried well down the page:

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Wx86 is a new component under development for Windows NT which runs most x86 Win32 applications seamlessly and unmodified on RISC platforms.
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It sounds to me like a MS version of something Digital successfully implemented and shipped under the name FX!32:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

Wikipedia has a précis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX!32
Being in the pocket of the mob
> Conclusion: booster shots do not stop people getting it or getting infected.

...and that's a non-news. We know that, we didn't expect anything else for a long time now since it's also true for other variants. Booster policies were made with that information already taken into account.
Here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Counsel_investigation_...

In the first paragraph -

> The Mueller investigation culminated with the Mueller Report, which concluded that though the Trump campaign welcomed Russian interference and expected to benefit from it, there was insufficient evidence to bring any conspiracy charges against Trump or his associates.

This makes it sound like there was something underhanded there, and their source for it was some opinion piece news article rather than the report itself. The fact is that the report conceded that they found no evidence which linked Trump or his campaign of colluding, conspiring with Russia.

The alleged hacking or leaking of Clinton and DNC information under the Obama administration by Russians or other hackers was nothing to do with Trump. He "welcomed" it like any politician welcomes bad news for their opponent, but it's a total mischaracterization of the report, which is really a incredibly problematic indictment of the wild conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation pushed by many politicians and corporations and people around this.

And major related articles from this one, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates.... When you look at other kinds of misinformation or even unproven allegations made by less favorable sides of politics, the articles often lead with "unsubstantiated claims", "without evidence", etc. This Trump Russia conspiracy theory clearly should be treated the same way, but it is not, wikipedia is still attempting to keep it alive and is trying to salvage the reputations of those who perpetuated it and those who fell for it.
It's more a thing of creative people, not boomers. Artist of all trade are retiring and coming back all the time, independent of their age. I would assume that they just have a drive to fulfill, which does not get satisfied enough in retirement. And they simply retire when they feel burned, and come back when they have recharged and found new inspiration.
Article is about reverse engineering Intel's microcode.

> abstract a layer above a given RISC core with microcode.

> I suppose what I'd really like to see is an Open-Source RISC CPU (ideally implemented on an FPGA) -- which then implements a microcoded ISA on top of that, and heck, the microcoded ISA doesn't have to be x86 or Intel's

Microcode's a very CPU-specific thing - as in specific to how the CPU is implemented internally, which can differ between vendor, microarch, stepping, or other things.

Different RISC CPUs may have different microcode--heck the same RISC CPU by the same vendor may have different microcode.

So:

- Sure, a RISC CPU can implement Intel x86 instructions in its microcode. But if you're thinking there could be a universal microcode "micro-binary" that implements the x86 ISA and can be applied to any CPU - nope. Would be nice but again the microcode is specific to a particular CPU microarch. So far easier and cheaper to just have a JIT facility in the operating system convert x86 opcodes to the equivalent RISC CPU opcodes when it's being loaded. You pay this penalty once if your OS does this right and caches the converted binary, and then you're done with it.

- If you want to expose the microarch so it can be directly programmed - that'd be interesting, but you're probably not going to make better decisions than the microarch in so far as keeping all the engines in the CPU 100% utilized. You might make it more secure, but it's a lot of work. It's probably more easier and profitable just to develop an ASIC for your application at that point, or if you're Apple, develop your own CPU.
It's the same problem test driven development faces. Some things can be inferred from a list of test cases (exam answers). But some things require deeper insight that no amount of test cases can provide without spending time actually thinking about the big picture.

http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s...
Care to list some or maybe link some literature? It's certainly an interesting argument to make, that's for sure!

That said, if there were an intelligence at the scale of a planet (just a thought experiment, maybe like the "Planetary AC" in The Last Question by Isaac Asimov: https://www.multivax.com/last_question.html), i doubt they'd see us as much more than mold, which we'd find on a loaf of bread ourselves.
I think it's been submitted a few times before, but I guess if they keep getting these requests they'll eventually add it.
My understanding is that during the Meiji period Japan imported wholesale those aspects of Western material and political culture that would allow them to achieve some level of parity with Western powers. This is not quite the same thing as “embracing Western values”. And even on that note, I’d question the extent to which postwar Japan has actually adopted Western liberalism as its own value system.
Well, a service-oriented architecture is a more general category then microservices and has been around much longer. In many cases it is much more justifiable on technical grounds. Just to give one example. You have an API that is not the most stable thing in the world and when it misbehaves you do not want it to take the whole application down with it. So you put it in a separate service that can easily be restarted. That is a good technical reason for a separation of executables. Problems arise when people introduce these separations for no good reason. Then one gets all of the problems of RPC and none of the benefits. I.e., one is making things more complicated for no good reason.
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Another aspect of this is that people will never really learn Git with a GUI and all these aliased commands. I'm not against aliases and I use them, but only on software that I'm very familiar with. Developers who are afraid of Git need to sit down and read Pro Git and learn the most commonly used commands, and use a quality reference for the more obscure ones.
I thought Iceland was looking to put the brakes on the influx of tourists they're getting? This does not help that.
I interviewed with Wikipedia a year or so ago, and right from the start the recruiter said “since we’re a donation based organization, we have to pay below market” and it was definitely below market. I politely turned them down, because I couldn’t take the pay cut.

So they’re asking their employees to donate as well, when they don’t need to.
I remember years ago watching a show on potential future technologies and one of the people being interviewed mentioned the following:

"One day, your child will be able to go to a dollar store and buy sheet of sticker cameras. These cameras will be paper thin, can be stuck anywhere and will have their own internet address that can be accessed over the public internet from a browser. Everything I just described is technically possible now, it's just not been put together and some of the components aren't cheap enough. As a society, we should be prepared for the ramifications of this."

Research and advancements like this make the above feel like it's getting closer and closer to the above.
Plenty of languages offer modularity, message queues and asynchronous events within a monolith. They are quite idiomatic in go, rust and elixir
>Those times saw a lot of poverty and suffering among the working class who had little choice in where they worked, while enriching only a small few industrialists.

Industrialisation the 1800s and early 1900s saw the end of child labour and slavery, the rise of the 8 hour work day and an increase in life expectancy by an entire decade.

Life then was terrible compared to the post-war era, but was constantly exponentially improving in material terms.

>But instead we made policies that maximised car and gas sales rather than maximise health and wellness, again to enrich the few at the expense of the many.

Poor city design and the existence of the internal combustion engine are two separate problems. Even with perfectly designed cities, we still reap huge benefits from the technology in terms of trucking, shipping and mechanised agriculture (!!!).
Exactly. You can build as equitable a software system as you want. It will still be used, misused and regulated within the context of our existing real-world power structures. Meaningful change to those structures cannot be affected with a technological solution absent a political movement.
That is just plain slavery.
In case anyone would like to know more about the Dark Forest scenario, have a look at some of the books by Cixin Liu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_of_Earth%27s_Past
Saw this around big data, but now painfully realizing there will be an entire generation of tech literates who will fail to understand the newer generation.

Like this generation sold out their parents on Facebook, the new generation should show us how it is done, not the other way around. They will not get off our lawn, no matter how hard we yell, no matter how silly this doubleyou-doubleyou-doubleyou-dot thingy sounds.
I took a few actuarial exams at center like this (USA, passed some failed others). I was pretty impressed. Cost was fair, seemed like it'd be hard to cheat. Most common exams being taken there looked like TOEFL, GRE, MCAT. I don't see why more professional certs couldn't do the same
> every second year they want to introduce "child safety measures"

It's always the same excuse every single time. I have to wonder if this stuff actually protects children.
One of my dorm-mates had this at college. It was a really good choice for them, since they used the university's Unix servers a lot, but they also played a lot of DOOM. It seemed to multitask DOS software about as well as OS/2, which is to say, much better than Windows 3.1, and somewhat better than Windows 95. I probably would have used it if I hadn't already adopted OS/2 at that point.
I've written about this software in the past, but I was a former user for quite some time.

Back in the day I ran a multi-node BBS and like the vast majority of BBSes in my area, they were all DOS-based applications[0]. I had written my own BBS software, originally a Telegard 2.4(3?) hack.

It was basically impossible to get a multi-node system working purely with DOS/Windows[1]. The (few useless) options for multi-tasking were nearly non-functional and this became monumentally worse when I had re-written the library which put text on the screen with some fancy assembly language that made everything positively fly on my 80486.

Enter Desqview/X -- for the DOS era, it was crazy. It just worked. Very few things other than the simplest in DOS "just worked". Aside from the odd interface (which wasn't all that much more odd than Windows 3.x) it performed exceptionally well, managing three active nodes without choking. Meanwhile, dear old Dad could fire up Lotus 1-2-3 while the BBS was running and didn't have to take the whole setup down[2].

[0] Telegard (later Renegade) and T.A.G. were the most common in my area code. I ran custom software that I wrote.

[1] Not entirely true, I know before I ran Desqview/X I was doing something else to make everything work, but it fell apart when I altered the software to improve screen writing performance.

[2] My dad was a small business owner who did his and the businesses taxes, himself. So February~AprilI had to figure what to do with my time since the computer was occupied during most non-school hours by my dad.
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It's not processing though? It's acting like a mirror or a polaroid? Do those process?...
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Yes, you have to compare to lost sales, but then again people in Germany are used to carry cash, so lost sales is maybe low enough not to matter.
That is a specious comparison. Tesla and Gamestop stock confer legal ownership of companies that produce billions of dollars in revenue per year. An NFT is a digitally signed text file uploaded to a blockchain... there is a massive difference between the two. More importantly, blockchains are massivevly inefficient when compared to digital signatures which already accomplish the ostensible value-add of NFTs.

I hope the NFT meme dies soon.
A part and parcel of being a professional is being able to successfully work with people you may not personally like, as long as their and your work outputs are not being actively and measurably harmed by said personal traits.

I could probably work with you and not mind you calling my work stupid if you could also back it up. Learn something every day, you know.
It's sad that your comment isn't higher up. General consensus in multiple German forums is that this judgment won't last and will be indeed just another Hamburger Landgericht misjudgment. Well, let's hope and see.
That's not a particularly valuable number. How about 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0?
https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/silk-road-s-dread-pirat...
There’s a huge difference between http and function calls. When I call a function there is no chance it fails because the function ‘cannot be reached’. With services there are endless reasons why one service is unable to communicate with another. It’s a huge amount of overhead to build a system to handle inter-service communication and failure that doesn’t exist when only calling a function in the same binary.
A single team can break down their domain into sensible layers and abstractions within a monolith.

Similarly, A microservices/SOA architecture can fail to break down their domain into good boundaries and abstractions. I've seen this happen a lot.

It's a lot harder to fix bad microservices than to fix a bad monolith
I have found one other use case: limiting the blast radius of ops and deployment issues. As an example, I once was working with a large telecom client who had their AAA web service (yes, don’t roll your own auth, but this client was big enough and had the right expertise on staff to do so) in the same monolith as their account management web service. The account management service saw active, frequent development to support new functionality while the AAA code only got updated a couple times a year.

Why touch a critical web service relied upon by literally every product you have when you don’t have to? Your business still functions if account management is offline; but not when authentication is offline. Even short outages to auth were unacceptable (millions of customers) and any updates had to be performed in constrained windows due to the criticality of the service.

So we cleaved off the mission-critical parts, stuck them in their own repos to be versioned independently, which let us move faster on the account management work since we could confidently deploy code that wasn’t 100% working because we didn’t need to wait for a maintenance window.
Adapting DevOps in a World of Growing Software Supply Chain Attacks
I already built a good bit of that: https://thoughts.willcipriano.com/podjeli-a-new-way-to-share...
Good point. He needs to own 44a81fec08e4290afb90b780e5d94e15980b08050a402374b3a7a6e59c83a736 (the SHA256) as well.
> Surely there were non-"appified" versions available?

Ironically, those are probably more expensive. Privacy has become a commodity.
The question of "how do academic families arise?" is an interesting one. Off the top of my head, the Huxley, Darwin, and Witten families. Perhaps it's the irrational, human desire to map meaning where there is none?
Do we lump Pixar films under the Disney label? Because Pixar has definitely put out some gems for “older kids” (Inside Out comes to mind). Although, to be fair, even those films tend to spell out the exact bits of wisdom they are imparting rather than letting audiences find their own treasure buried in a beautiful story.
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It does look clean. Works with JS disabled for me. The bottom part says they are low on funding though. Hopefully frontage of HN doesn't take it down.

For some reason, exercise is that one thing that I think I would prefer to watch a video to learn over posters. Not sure why myself.
I hereby formally claim 6f50fde3-a7f0-433b-a9b1-8ef6d665905b.

This HN comment will probably last longer than a random blockchain.
Yes, the Cisco certs seem to have a relatively good reputation. I think the higher ones even involve (or at least did) stages where the test-taker spends half a day setting something up, then an instructor breaks it and they have to fix it again. On the other hand, people there complain about the recertification requirements - it's quite a bit of effort to repeat every few years, so unless you're strictly required by an employer or customer to maintain them many let it lapse.
IMO the key takeaway from GTD is that you need to write things down in some sort of anything-goes inbox, so that they don't bounce around in your head. What kind of sorting/tracking mechanism you use after that is less important.
> I want to buy it just for the product description!

there is a product demo video that does not load on the mobile app i browse HN with. you simply must see it, it is nearly a work of art.

if they werent sold out i would buy 4 of them for nieces, nephews, and my WFH desk.