skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the case of wine, the real-world version of “going bad” is just that it’s not very good. When you bought the future wine, you were betting that it would be very good wine and you could resell it for more. The winery was selling it to you for “cheap(er)” because you assumed that risk.

So for actual wine, right now, you have no recourse: you bought the risk. I don’t think this would be any different with NFT-wine. Now and in the NFT case you already paid the winery, you owe them nothing more.

Now if they cheat and give you water instead of wine… I guess whatever real-world contract says you can exchange this token for wine would say which wine?

Most likely the first N wineries to do this would do it as a publicity stunt, and if it proved useful then there would be some precedent. Much of the wine world operates on reputation and trust.

For the vast majority of physical products that are not like wine: you’d need real-world contracts to back your smart contracts and the latter would only be useful for decentralization of the secondary market.
> The hacker was able to steal an API key that gave them control of BadgerDAO’s account on Cloudflare, the project’s content delivery network for its site. This gave the hacker the ability to inject a malicious script on the site that prompted users to give up wallet permissions, which then allowed the hackers to steal customers’ cryptocurrency.

If your use case involves being able to control user accounts centrally, why do you need blockchain for that?

UPD: if hacker didn't do it, BadgerDAO could do it anytime in the future, when money is much more than now, so it is good that they were hacked earlier, smaller impact on end users
I'd recommend having a look at https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim if you feel you're missing out from not having VSCode extensions - it's available for both vim and neovim. Allows you to use those language servers that you're otherwise not able to in vanilla vim, with additional surrounding tooling - I honestly don't miss anything from VSCode at this point
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You’d think the sort of people who buy crypto tokens wouldn’t be the sort to trust others to hold their ‘money’, but I guess consistency is no one’s strong point.
Shove some cash under a mattress or store it in a vault and you can be sure you are holding real dollars not fractional ones. Just holding a real dollar says nothing about the value of the dollar you are holding. Same as just holding a real bitcoin says nothing about the value of the bitcoin you are holding. Outside forces affect the actual value of what you hold fractional or not. The ability to self-custody affords you nothing. The value in either case can plummet completely outside of your control.
I would add something (disclaimer I am involved in the management of a small hotel, this comes from my experience):

1) you will talk to a human

2) you will be able to talk about particular requests (like - say - higher or lower floor, an additional bed for your child, room with balcony, non standard breakfast, etc.)

3) the dates/times of your arrival and departure will be double checked interactively with the hotel clerk [0]

4) the rate will be double checked and confirmed [1] (besides very likely being lower, particularly if you are going to stay mmore than one or two days)

[0] it is not extremely rare that people make mistakes with the dates, when/if you arrive one day earlier it is usually not a problem (unless the hotel has no vacancies) but if you arrive one day later, that is a "no show", your money cannot be recovered

[1] it happens often enough that people books a double room ( but for one person) by mistake and then is surprised that the hotel asks for a supplement for the second person
They'll always be with us, like beanie babies. But like the fall of Steg the $40,000 stuffed Stegosaurus - now valued at $900 - history will not be kind to the valuations.
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It is. The freedom they're referring to is a freedom from consequences resulting from their speech.
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> That's small thing, but really makes me spend so much more time when I need to use Python for something. I guess that's not an issue for experienced developers who memorized all functions they need.

I've been programming in python for almost 15 years and I don't know all the functions/classes/attributes of any module in the standard library probably. What I do know is that if I'm on a vanilla python shell I can type `help(module)` and I'll get that list in the shell directly, and even `help(module.function)` will give me enough context most of the time that I won't need to go online either.

However, as my daily shell, I use IPython, on which I have smart autocomplete that inspects the modules for me by just typing `module.`, hit tab and BAM! All the things inside the module pop up before me to explore. Something looks about what I need? I add a ? at the end an press enter, so `module.function?` will show me the docstring, nicely formatted with the signture (the same thing the built-in `help()` does).

So the online docs, for python, rest on an entirely different level. But sure, coming from other languages it may be weird not having what you're used to. It's part of the languages culture.
Nice work done . Excellent architecture
I don't know anything about anything, but I see Wikipedia says Tether is 65% "backed by commercial paper". Which as far as I can tell basically means IOUs, but IOUs that are considered somewhat legit. It definitely seems questionable, but I'm not really sure how to assess how bad it is or isn't.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)

Edit: I see elsewhere somebody saying "nobody in the commercial paper markets have heard of them"
Market cap has to grow somehow. Capitalism as economical model depends on growth. So they have to come up with ridiculous things like hedonic index and such to create an illusion of added value out of nothing.
HN mostly doesn’t think NFTs work or have a purpose, even though they have 1 million+ users or so. They’re denying gravity after Newton at this point.

All the arguments here are tech stack obsessions instead of looking at real world use.
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“The laws of supply and demand mean that the amount of energy consumed closely tracks the price of the cryptocurrency in question: increases in demand correspond directly to increases in energy use. Although some newer cryptocurrencies avoid this through alternative protocols (“proof of stake” etc), they remain a distinct minority. Additionally, inter-currency trading means that their value closely tracks that of the larger cryptocurrencies, meaning that changes in their price have a similar effect on the total energy consumption.”

I’m a little confused by that last part, maybe a more economically-minded commenter can help me. How does the price change of a small-cap proof-of-stake currency have a similar effect on energy consumption as a larger, proof-of-work one?
As we've been finding out with our org's migration to Dynamics from our homebrewed organizational software. (The auditing features in Dynamics are particularly limited.) Still, as time goes on these platforms keep improving on the complicated issues and the edge cases that tend to work better with bespoke software. Slowly but surely they are killing us off.
When I've applied for a mortgage and things they've always just looked at my income not my employment. Like most people I've got multiple little incomes and you need to consider them all.
This is absolutely untrue. When you look at the political landscape, evangelicals have no power. And yet, when you look at any vote in Congress regarding Israeli issues, such as the recent vote to replenish the Iron Dome system, it was overwhelmingly voted in. The only "controversy" was the 3 or 4 people who objected initially, and were then bullied BY BOTH PARTIES into voting yes.
I do mind telemetry, especially on something as private as my display (or keyboard).

Realistically, why does it matter what the exact mechanism of applying calibration data is? As long as it works with the appropriate .ICM file, I'm happy. Or, (sounds crazy) just have monitors introduce a setting that treats the video input as a dumb, uncalibrated RGB stream and do the colour mapping internally in the monitor.
The difference between Django and Express.js is that one is a fully-fledged web application framework, while the other is a micro framework that just gives you a simple request -> response abstraction over `http.createServer`.

I find Flask is more comparable to Express.js in that regard. Need auth? You need to:

1. Install a lib for persistence

2. Set up cookie sessions, or install another lib for JWT

3. Set up auth middleware

4. Prepare login/register/forgot pass views and flows

which are almost the same steps you need to take in Express.js.
Dear Self; We Need to Talk About Social Media
For an official government web site, FAQs have an additional downside - some people will (perhaps maliciously) regard the FAQ answers as the law. Or as official policy. Or similar stunts. This can get you into having lawyers regularly review the FAQs, answers that are half disclaimers, and other messes.

That said, there are many cases where I find FAQs useful. Especially for learning the basic (and oft undocumented) assumptions behind something. Or as a TL;DR alternative to marketing blather, clueless salespeople, and mediocre documentation.
I develop a website where you can make and share games. The games each have a counter with the number of plays.

I can easily manipulate that number to inflate how many people have played those games, but I'm glad I never did. For one, the comments below that game wouldn't reflect the numbers.

I think people are smarter than you think, and can easily spot inconsistencies of numbers being too big, relative to the engagement on a platform.
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29414924
> but this would require 12 I/O lines, and the small 14-pin processors only provide 11.

Actually the 14 pin chips provide 12 GPIO lines, it just requires you to set a fuse which will disable the reset function to get the 12th one.

If you then need to change the programming once more after setting that fuse, you'll need what is known as a "high voltage programmer" (high voltage being 12V instead of 5V) to regain access to the reset pin.
Or it's simply different ideas about what sex should be like. My hear rate certainly goes far higher than 90s, but people like different speed and vigour...
I do if it risks harming society. I certainly advocate against PFOAs. The answer to PFOAs isn't "just don't buy non-stick pans and tell anyone who encourages you to do so to 'shut up.'" It's a broad-based ban.
Would like to add Webflow to the list of suggestions
> in which case power consumption will no longer be an environmental issue.

But it is right now.

We don't live in a world with carbon neutral power generation. We're not there. PoW is even encouraging people to bring fossil-fuel based generation back online just for mining and making the transition to low-carbon economies slower.

> I'm yet to hear a convincing argument against proof of work under the assumption of carbon neutral electricity generation.

Yeah, let's have that argument when we're closer to actually having that. Oh, and before you say "Increased demand will get us there sooner"... no, it won't, we already have a huge amount of demand that can't be met, it's making things worse.
Agree with the other commenter. This isn't true. Most politicians on both sides of the aisle are way out of touch with the average American who is usually pretty critical of Israel, namely due to the shocking amount of aid we send them each year.
> Still, gold is a close analogue. But there are important differences there, still.

The biggest difference is that gold does not require significant upkeep to maintain. Mining gold extracts a resource, which can then be used at low marginal cost. Running proof of work computations enables transactions to occur, and is rewarded as compensation. If the proof of work computations stop, then the reward can no longer be spent. This is why I refuse to use the term "mining", as it brings in a large number of incorrect assumptions of the process.
I am not sure why anyone would expect medical advances to make people healthier. A majority of people eat poorly, sleep poorly, are subjected to stressful situations, live sedentary lifestyles, breath polluted air and so on. Fix those things first, at very least the things you have control over and then whatever remains, turn to medicine.
There's at least two of these articles a week written by people without a finance background. It's laughable now how completely foolish they sound.

If you don't understand why these new systems are so important, please read up about the 2008 crash before deriding trustless settlement. Why did the financial system seize up so quickly? How are settlements handled between financial institutions? How does the flow of assets actually work in practice? Who owns the settlement systems and where are financial assets kept and why? Not the digital accounting, but the actual custodial functions.

Cryptocurrencies, especially NFTs, have a very important use case in these areas.
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So how do you protest a country without applying their actions to their people?

Because ordinarily Americans would never have direct interaction with the state of Israel.
This is just another paean to making all white-collar work "gig" work, undermining the security and benefits of traditional employment, in favor of making better-looking numbers on balance sheets for startups. Don't buy into this. Some people can do it; other's can't. I could, but I don't want to. It's too much stress on my interpersonal skills. The single, biggest, best change we could make with employment in this country -- which would benefit employer and employee alike -- is to decouple health insurance from it. It'd be better to break it out and let us buy health insurance like car insurance, but we'll eventually get nationalized health care or socialized medicine or whatever you want to call it. Either way, this will alleviate a lot of pressure on companies on their hiring decisions, and on people who get locked in jobs because of health issues.
Loved it!

Great work @sansyrox!
I've heard plenty of anecdotes of people getting Apple to fix their Mac hardware even outside of warranty. Mostly in the US where they seem to care more about customer support. It's all anecdotes though so I have no idea how common it is.
"You're free to do X but that doesn't mean the government can't take adverse action in response" is true of literally all crimes. You're free to go blow up a courthouse, but will be arrested and probably executed. That isn't what freedom means. The Bill of Rights guarantees the government can't legally sanction you for protected speech. Any sanctions at all. It doesn't only keep them from severing your vocal chords to prevent speech entirely. They also can't imprison you, fine you, intimidate you, or prevent you from competing in otherwise open contract bids.
You're reflexively labeled anti-Semitic and often castigated for it.
I'm quite certain the ACLU employs some.
Off topic: I wish NIM had a Django-like web framework.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turan
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EU ministers clear the way for abolishing VAT on solar panels
Nice framework
Russia: Some ISPs are blocking Tor
> why do you need blockchain for that?

As Willie Sutton said, that's where the money is. https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/26/archives/willie-sutton-sa...

(Imagine having to go to the trouble and risk of walking into a bank with a gun for a mere thirty thousand 1979 dollars, when you could steal one hundred million dollars by compromising some software!)
> You and I have a different idea of "everyone" means, but anyway...

I misspoke, everyone who is investing in Bitcoin, ~100 million individuala, is doing so because of it's store of value and inflation-hedge properties

> Because if it's value depends on a large number of people agreeing to its value, then it's not a store of value. All it takes is for the miners to decide to dedicate their resources to something more profitable, and suddenly the network is worth zero.

Can you tell me a single asset or commodity (including USD) whose value does not depend on a number of people agreeing to it? Yes the US gov determines that fiat has value by accepting it for taxes, but how much value it has to purchase real goods is determined by the market.

> It's so unique, it has spun how many forks already?

Often imitated, never replicated. No one has ever come close to replicating the hashpower that makes Bitcoin secure.

> You are literally using circular logic here.

It is a $1 Trillion asset that started out as a worthless technology experiment almost 13 years ago

> "Blockchain, not Bitcoin". ;)

No, just no. Blockchain without Bitcoin, meaning the game theory that led to the rise of the network and the supercomputer network that protects it, is just a nice academic theory. Other Blockchains do not enjoy the hashpower or the security budget of Bitcoin and are therefore not competitive. (Name one other Blockchain that is more secure than Bitcoin)

> BTC was a good prototype. That's it.

A prototype that is now worth $1 Trillion in market cap, moving more value than Visa every day.

How can we call that a prototype?

Are there any competitive blockchains that are aiming to replace this Bitcoin 'prototype' and providing a decentralized digital currency with a fixed a pre-determined monetary policy, protected by the most secure super-computer ever created?

> BTC already failed as a currency, the activists and cypherpunks that first got into it would be mortified to see how now current proponents end up cheering for a dictator in a Banana Republic that is pushing "their" coin.

I'm sorry Bitcoin didn't conform to your 'allowed' definition of a 'currency'. Bitcoin is no more a currency than the automobile was a mechanical horse. Bitcoin is a radically different way of solving the same problem traditionally solved with money. There is overlap, but it isn't going to be 100%.

I think you are overly focused on the medium of exchange and unit of account use case. These unfortunately are dead on arrival for any country that taxes Bitcoin as property rather than treating it like a currency. In El Salvador, Bitcoin can be a currency, not in the US or Europe.

> The "digital gold" narrative switch was an attempt to save it and now we are all playing this game of "Emperor has no clothes" with something because some people are trying to be rich without building any wealth.

I appreciate your perspective. Have fun staying poor.
I would treat them as board seats in a foundation (orphaned entity) taxed at the entity level, and the entity is non-US

As governance tokens aren’t equity, and there is nothing to pass through

Either way, there would be enough board seats OR shareholders from different places to dilute ownership to ensure there was no subpart f income

bearer board seats, even better than bearer shares. Crypto is immediately picking up the baton after all that energy was used to jettison bearer shares off the planet over the prior two decades.
I'm of the opinion that anti-BDS laws are unconstitutional, but:

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

You cannot discriminate against an Israeli on the basis of either. You can discriminate against Israel as a state.
> build a shared database where you don't have to assume a ton of nodes are honest: the nodes are being monetarily incentivized to be honest.

Monetary incentives are certainly one way to do that, but I don’t see any evidence that they’re the only way.

In particular, you should only need to assume that some nodes will be honest, and have a cheap way to verify honesty. Long-lived reputation and cryptographic “proofs of dishonesty” seem promising. Make it hard to build reputation, but easy to lose it, and easy to detect dishonest actions.
Customers more likely to overlook negative review if business respond adequately
For me, in the end I disputed the charge with my credit card and they sided with me when I send pictures of the hotel. The single collective bathroom (yes) had no locks on the door (yes).
The problem with this approach:

> There are problems with proof of stake, so it's not like everything is rosy, but those problems are being worked.

Is that it's like cold fusion. Some stuff was worked on for centuries before we managed to solve it. Some stuff we still haven't, after millennia.

Bitcoin was a breakthrough due to Proof of Work. It was a major breakthrough. The other Proofs of Whatever are far from guaranteed to raise to the same level.

There's a huge mix of wishful thinking and G.R.E.E.D.
Indeterminate loading indicators are only appropriate for short load times. Anything longer and you definitely want to have something to inform the user of a timeline. Even if it’s a bit of a fib.
Poland Syndrome may have links to other forms of syndactyly, so you maybe able to narrow down some of the patterns, which could include cultural diets or local environmental factors.
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/13181/syndactyly
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This also explains a bit about gene regulation ie switching on & off and ramping them up or down
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26872/
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Clues would be looking at conditions with the same properties like webbing and if its exactly the same condition, treatments for these other conditions may become relevant.

There is a lot of studies on Google Scholar and it goes back to the 1800's. Some studies in livestock or vegetation (crops mainly) can also illicit clues because despite being different some chemical reactions or some end results will be the same in humans and animals and plants. You just cant change some of the chemical reactions, melatonin be one that is seen in humans, animals and plants, it increases in darkness.
> You could have a currency where taxes are already built into the transfer system and the government is funded by those transfers.

Like a consumption tax/sales tax/GST?
Great architecture sansyrox
They forget that they pioneered cancel culture during the Reagan years with calling into radio shows to get people kicked off the air and with bullshit like the Satanic Panic.
Evangelical Christians have enormous political power. That's why the last three appointees to the Supreme Court were vetted by pro-Life organizations and Roe v. Wade is in imminent danger.
> While we take no position on Israel boycotts, the BDS movement, or Israel-Palestine

From: https://www.aclu.org/letter/aclu-letter-opposing-s-1-combati...