skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The entire point of the distributed ledger is to help secure a stronger social consensus and build a traceable record of value transfer.

Forking or copying a CryptoPunk (or Fidenza, to use an art related comparison) will not do much to sway the consensus that has formed around its contract address and transaction history.
> An adult male cannot physically take on a monkey.

Really? I would expect that the inevitable injuries aren't worth it, but I'd expect this to be the case on both sides, with the monkey ending up significantly worse off if the human were to actually consider it a fight-to-kill-or-be-killed, not a "make the nuisance go away".

What I don't understand though: If the monkeys are such a nuisance, why are they tolerated? Is there a religious taboo against hurting them? Legal protection? Strict limits on what kind of weapons people can have?
>Shortly before 3 a.m. on July 19, 2016, American Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three ISIS “staging areas” on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside hamlet in northern Syria. They reported 85 fighters killed. In fact, they hit houses far from the front line, where farmers, their families and other local people sought nighttime sanctuary from bombing and gunfire. More than 120 villagers were killed.

Are we the baddies?

P.S I wonder what was extracted in exchange for a Saturday publish date.
Jumping in here to plug a company that I co-founded called Redact. We are developing a trustless way to store and process PII - our tech is end-to-end open source (unlike competitors), we don't use any proprietary encryption algorithms or techniques (unlike competitors), and we give users a way to control and monitor access to their own data. We think this is the future of Web3. Check out our website and I'd be more than happy to answer questions or provide some links to our source code if there's any interest.
https://redact.ws

Some more details here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/q79grm/redact_tool_fo...
Given how many times my real email is used incorrectly to sign up for everything from nursing courses in Florida to Golf Sundays in Michigan, I would no longer trust that "real email" address to be tied to the real person without more information.
Maybe, but layman programmers also tend to vastly underestimate the work needed to finish projects, because "it's easy, you just need to..."

I would assume the last 10% is going to be just as hard as the first 90%, just like most engineering projects.
"Certified by NIST" absolves people of responsibility without actually indicating any property of the code certified.
Appears so. I found an article from 2019 when they opened some samples as well.

> […] NASA also made the decision to keep some samples completely untouched as an investment in the future, allowing them to be analyzed with more advanced technologies as they are developed. These include samples that remained sealed in their original containers, as well as some stored under special conditions, all intended to be opened and analyzed with more advanced analytical technologies than were available during Apollo.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-opens-previously-unopened-...
Win, or injure the human so badly that they won't pick the fight again before the human kills it, assuming the human actually fights to kill?

I have no doubt it's not wise to fight a monkey, but I wouldn't expect it to actually win.
You're applying the thought of 'they use it on iOS so it's the mac thats shifting' way too hard on Apple just choosing a new architecture that suits their products best...

If the performance hadn't been what it is then I'd agree. But I'd say the vast majority of hardcore mac users are hyped about the new devices. That's a sign that they're keeping the mac as the mac.

I can't wait to move from my intel to a M* in the next couple of years when software support is fully there for audio stuff.
Fidget spinner?
>would anyone on HN give weight to the 1% of ‘experts’ that deny climate change?

Yes. Name any consensus opinion and at least one contrarian will show up to denounce it. Just look at COVID - every single thread about it is packed with anti-vaxxers and skeptics.
"or by single servings of items in plastic wrapping?"

Bought a smartphone for $200? You are supporting modern slavery in China with your consumerist demand for cheap goods!

Oh, you bought a premium smartphone for $2,000? Congratulations, you are still supporting slavery, the company lied, have a nice day!

Stop this charade, it's only purpose is to shift blame while those that created the problem are making a killing.

There is nowhere I can buy food without plastic within a 5 mile radius. What am I suppose to do, buy a cow, slaughter it myself in my apartment?
| keep in mind that picking Java over Cobol for banking software in 90s retrospectively turned out to be the right choice

Is the Java written in the 90's still the same Java written today? I feel the mentioned Lindy effect equally applies to dialect. C++ today is radically different to C++ from the 90's. I'd venture COBOL from the 90's is likely quite similar to COBOL today.
This is the whole point of Web3. The idea that these centralized services can be replaced by peer-to-peer transactions over open source software and the digitization of assets like gig tickets as NFTs.
They did recall several brands, I checked and mine was not recalled. I bought a name brand one, Airwalk to be exact. Yes I know many are just rebranded but there was some issues in the ones that caught on fire which the air walk brand did not have. It is 3 years old and running strong still, on it's second shell as they bashed the shit out of the first one cracking it. Sounds like the perfect match for an incident bashing walls with a possible explosive battery inside. It could go off any day but some risk I will take because they are a lot of fun. I just charge it on ceramic tiles and keep it away from the walls. I have told my kids if it catches on fire they need to get outside immediately and not breath the smoke.
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If the question is: how do we prevent sale of stolen bikes, I’m not sure how that solves the problem.

Is there a possible way for FB and other similar places (offerup, pawn shops, etc.) to verify without some central registry?
Related (>100 comments, including the maintainer of log4j) from 12h ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29603208
Just change one pixel
Thank you for the write up, since as far as my research has gone that is the best description of how to go about planning for vectorization I have seen. Undoubtedly experimentation on our corpus is required, but it helps to have an overview so we don't wildly run down the wrong paths early on.
Yet Facebook earns money of this illegal business, no? Just like their practice with the Amazon land plots they catered to buyers. The list of illegal things that Facebook facilitates in return of profits is endless and just banning the city is too short-sighted in my view.
I'm also not sure where I argued that we should frame it as purely matters of race/gender/politics. Certainly there are other aspects and other lenses. But these are intersectional issues and race/gender/politics happen to be crucial lenses.

I don't mean btw to straw man the comment by mentioning hate crimes/police brutality/etc. First of all, race shows up in much more mundane stuff like awkward conversations about where you're really from, or people making implicit assumptions about my parental background based on my being in tech. It's my bad for not mentioning those as well.

However it's also that these dramatic things, as thankfully rare as they are, have a pervasive effect on one's life. I've never gotten hate crimed, nor do I know anyone who has (knock on wood). But I have thought about whether to buy my parents pepper spray. I have wondered each time a mentally ill person steps on the subway and looks in my direction if I'm about to get hate crimed. My Asian friends and I joke about it because it's something we think about in our day to day life. I can't speak for white people but I don't think most white people have that concern. And if this isn't part of your daily fabric, your daily existence, you might not understand that nobody is "bringing race" into stuff as much as they are sharing their racialized daily existence.
> We took their home

We are an animal and part of nature too.

> And they don't have enough wisdom to know who they should harm and who they shouldn't.

They seem pretty smart about it tbh. They know what they can get away with and go no further than that.
That's the core issue though with ownership of NFTs. If a court says one thing, and the immutable ledger says something else, it's the immutable ledger that's wrong.
> signed by the author

With their encrypted keys I presume? A few more steps and you'll have reinvented cryptograpgic ledgers.
How does LEADS work and how could FB and OfferUp use it?
> Are we the baddies?

No but we can do better.
Literally around 2 cents if you use the Polygon network. Layer 2 solutions would be perfect for this because A. you can bundle ticket sales and B. you don't need tickets to sell immediately, it's okay to wait a couple minutes.
So the common "refactorings" I see in IDEs now days tend to be things like rename, extract/inline, and a limited amount of class hierarchy change.

Some of the other one's I remember involved parameter add/removal (I think PyCharm can do this one?), extract to component, and high end ways to manipulate the class tree like add/remove/pivot class hierarchies.

There were some fun "extras" too like convert to/from ValueHolder (a ValueHolder is a Pointer with Notifications attached to it).

Where the magic began though was in this very simplicity all-in-one thing. To mess with the Refactoring engine in IntelliJs tools or VSCode, I have to learn another language, do another build environment. In Smalltalk, you were there already. It's all in the same code browser. Just scroll down to that part of the system. The AST is so simple, it's expressed in ~15 Node Types (compare to Ruby which has +90 parse node types someone told me?). The matching node type was a single additional node type. So you could see the code that did the refactorings. And you could use the same match trees they did. So you were minutes away from deriving your own refactorings. The first few times, it took longer than just doing them by hand, and then you got good at it and could do some cool things.

The only newer language that I've seen that maybe has this same "because we kept it simple we can do cool things" ethos to date for me is Elixir. My guess is there some others. My guess, is that like Smalltalk, any of these "mind blowing/changing" language/systems have a small but passionate following, but are not enjoying viral adoption.
I'm surprised about the stray dogs.

The mosquitoes are being worked on.
That may be one view. Another view is that it allows artists across the globe a digital-first mechanism to distribute and earn revenue on their digital artwork. See Hicetnunc for example.
I know people who read these books purely to get some “cultural enrichment” out of them and to understand how other people might think and observe the world.

Personally - I would recommend some of the books as well because they are incredibly prevalent in the American psyche in some form or another.

That is not to say that I endorse their methodologies. After all - win friends is impossible for me because if its basic premise “you must be genuinely interested”. I’m rarely ever genuinely interested in anyone - as most people I meet are pretty terrible individuals. (Maybe that’s just a side effect of living in cutthroat SV)
Two links of interest:

https://refactory.com/refactorings/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220346807_A_Refacto...
I use this and it works very well. I also want to add that it shares the clipboard across all of the PCs. In fact I can even copy from my iPhone and paste into a windows PC, via my MacBook.

I also have a few PCs and use the input selection on my monitor to achieve the KVM aspect. The only issue I found is that if no monitor is actively connected to a windows machine, barrier server doesn’t work well, and also you can’t Remote Desktop to it. I solved both of these by adding a dummy HDMI dongle, set to a low resolution so application windows can’t get stuck there.

Not a perfect solution but the best I’ve found since my goals were: to use a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and not worry about limitations to refresh rate, etc.
Just to make this more explicit. Ensure BCC (blind carbon copy) is used for all newsletter emails.
Ask HN: Transcribe bass guitar parts from stems?
I play in a rock band, and people often ask for bass tabs to my parts. I was wondering if anyone knows of a good way of auto generating notes or tabs from isolated bass guitar tracks. I tried some tools, but the results were really bad.(https://rickyhan.com/jekyll/update/2020/05/23/algorithm-for-fretboard-arrangement.html)

You would think since bass guitar plays one note at a time, it would be reasonably easy to transcribe the notes, but I haven't been able to find anything that does the job.

Here is an example of bass stem I'm trying to auto transcribe: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1__20KijfHcg56A-HCtlehL_exur9AL0t/view?usp=sharing

and here is the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0cRlhqaV1k
This event comes up in the Atlantis Gene book series, which is one of my favorite. It’s Indiana Jones meets Star Trek, and instantly drew me in.
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/4/15552184/us-justice-department-...
Is this a "in case I switch books", or a "in case I have to look something up" convenience?
What has Chevron done?
WolkenWelten, a LISP-Powered Voxel Sandbox
I struggle with this too. Books and newspapers are a good resource of course. It's also quite good to read some academic humanities and social science writing. HN and other fora make a big point of free speech, open minded discussion, but I find that there aren't always articles from intellectuals in the academic sphere on HN. Of course these sources have biases of their own, but isn't the point of open minded free speech to read those with whom you disagree?
Are you looking for output that’s more structured than curl’s or for a way to run curl on silly sites that block you?
By quoting this section, you allow sceptics to latch onto the "artists can mint multiple NFTs for the same piece of art" thing.

But the author also says "resale is out of scope", but it really isn't. More than the artist selling a token multiple times (they legitimately are allowed to do so), we need to make sure that any owner seeking to transfer a token loses ownership.

This system does not model ownership.
I thought it was satire, but I guess that says more about me
I did something like this to someone once. I wanted to see if their camera worked in our in-app browser (it didn't). It was part of a loan application process. I tried fixing the bug a few times and didn't work each time.

I actually gave my real details the first time but didn't submit the form, so someone tried calling me about 20 times before I picked up and was confused when I said I wasn't interested.
So yeah

# curl ipinfo.io/34.66.115.47
{
"ip": "34.66.115.47",
"hostname": "47.115.66.34.bc.googleusercontent.com",
"city": "Council Bluffs",
"region": "Iowa",
"country": "US",
"loc": "41.2619,-95.8608",
"org": "AS396982 Google LLC",
"postal": "51502",
"timezone": "America/Chicago",
"readme": "https://ipinfo.io/missingauth"}

What kind of url is that? This cant be someone using a browser as normal on their own machine can it? Could they be trying to build a google form or document or something that embeds part of the sign up form?

Edit: unsubstantiated source [0] says that domain relates to Google app engine, so could be the person is working on a project that includes some form submission capability and somehow is using your site for testing

https://superuser.com/questions/892437/what-do-you-do-if-you...
> For startups, I think that companies smaller than 50 employees and less than 3 years old will likely not do as well in a distributed work environment. There just isn’t enough common culture or process to make it work, in my opinion.

It is possible this is why some startups will fail sooner.

It is possible this is why some pre IPO private buyouts will be less likely, there won't be enough "there" there to acquire as a work culture or visible asset holding outcome.

But I personally believe the ones which survive being more WFH will be more resilient long-term and make more persisting value long term.

So I half agree and half disagree. Founder-Vesting-VC wins may be net smaller in my case. That's a downside for one point of view.
Looking at the Wikipedia page for Cobol 2002 and 2014, the last two major releases, it looks like they've gained features such as Object Oriented Programming, Recursion, data types like Booleans, pointers, and user-defined functions. So I'm going to bet modern COBOL looks totally different to that of the 90's!
I love my iphone 4s and it was only a couple years back I got rid of it. I had replaced the screen multiple times, replaced the power button, replaced the ear speaker, I think it had a new home button. It was a frankenphone to say the least but I loved it for years. It could fit in your hand and you could text with only one hand. Sadly some of the apps stopped working and they began to force the new ios at the time to be able to use certain apps. So eventually, thought the phone was and still is functional is had not become obsolete.
I would highly recommend you read the beginning of the linked SSC article. It's about people who had fresh perspectives getting shut down by authorities who were mad about what they said. And how those authorities always have an excuse in terms of something the person didn't say or do perfectly.

If Damore didn't perfectly solve America's diversity problems in one swoop, I guess that's a mark against him -- but what about the people who attacked him rather than helping to realize his vision of a more candid, psychologically safe discussion of corporate diversity policy? People like Sundar Pichai, very rich, comfortable, powerful folks who chose to rhetorically demonize Damore rather than showing literally any courage to critique his points in a nuanced way?

And no, it wasn't an anti-diversity screed. Powerful people said it was, so now people scramble to say how the powerful people were kinda right. They weren't. They lied.
If you pay for something that already exists, like a piece of fine art, that money doesn't disappear, it just changes hands. The buyer could have spent that money on fighting poverty, but now the seller has the money, and you could say the same thing about them. The net amount of wealth in the world is unchanged.

Buying things that need to be produced is the real problem. When you buy a new private jet, you're adding demand to an industry. That transaction re-allocates tens of thousands of man-hours to aircraft production, man-hours that could instead be going towards any other cause that has marginally more utility to the rest of society.

Provenance isn't the issue, the issue is people with money paying others to work on projects that solely benefit themselves rather than benefiting the less fortunate.
Is the trophy for winning a sporting event actually worth anything beyond it's material cost to someone who didn't actually win the event?
The 60-Year Coup, Part 2 [audio]
Another difference is that in C/C++ thread-safety documentation usually talks about functions being thread-safe or not. OTOH in Rust, the thread-safety information is attached to data types, not functions. Even closure types like `Fn() + Sync + Send` are not about the function itself, but the data it is allowed to capture. So in a sense, you're allowed to call any function anywhere you want, but Rust will stop you from giving it data that it couldn't safely touch.
Are you sure your newsletter is actually getting sent out?

It sounds like they're not receiving it, so signing up with junk emails to check.
I thought this was common knowledge at this point.

I am legitimately surprised to hear that people are still using this service.
Our energy usage will definitely decrease and I'm all for it, I just hope it's in a controlled way and not a brutal collapse.
I'm talking "short" term, if you shutdown nuclear plant for political reasons, you just burn more fossil fuel, Germany was nice enough to do the experiment for us, invest massively in renewables but shutdown nuclear plant so they can burn coal and emit 3x more CO2 per kWh than France ... (https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/FR)

For the price just have a look at latest RTE report: https://www.rte-france.com/analyses-tendances-et-prospective... /
https://assets.rte-france.com/prod/public/2021-12/Futurs-Ene...
The scenario with the most nuclear is the cheapest (deconstruction included). This report show the cost in 2060 which is less than half life of nuclear plant and full life of solar panel and wind turbine, I would love the numbers for 2080.
Here some comments on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/qon812/jai_recompil...
I was a follower for some time, several years ago. His biblical series are a highlight. I lost him at the “12 rules” book, came to see it as wrapping surface things in fancy confusing language, and I can’t unsee this smoke and mirrors since. He’s a knowledgeable professor and independent thinker, but he has become too big in my opinion.
If you have the NFT signed by the artist's PGP key is the same thing though, no? You're the owner. Or the person you sign it to afterwards. What does the public blockchain offer in this case, except for fees?
> Well, if you want to do it right, you don't just "not discuss" the orthodoxy, you go out of your way to make discussing the orthodoxy very clearly forbidden on the research circle.

Nah. That makes it a forbidden fruit attracting rebellious youth like nothing else. I've seen it happen in communist Poland regarding the Katyń massacre for example. You don't outright say "we don't talk about Katyń here" - that would just make it more popular and indirectly admit you are wrong.

What you actually do is invent your own version of facts that works emotionally just as well (Germans did it), spread it everywhere, and punish people in a way that is reasonable and provides plausible denial. For example my father (very interested in history since he was a kid) repeated a class in high school because he failed history - giving the "wrong" answers on exams.

It's not that they will kill your family - there's no need usually. It's just you're making everything harder for yourself.
What Big History Misses
You instead wholly failed to address the point about symbol tables.
The 'NULL' License Plate (2019)
I've been using my SE for 5 years now without a case nor a screen protector. The screen is fine, although the corners are a bit dinged from having been dropped and the back is quite scratched. Works fine, hoping to go another couple of years with it.
Everything is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay for it.
For most use cases, headless chromium will work out of the box. For the rest, set $DISPLAY to a virtual framebuffer like Xvfb
Also in the US, and decided to try out UberEats one day because my friend had a pretty good referral code deal. Opened the website, set up my order, but the checkout button was just greyed out with no error message. Figuring it was a browser issue as I run Firefox and many companies don't give a shit, I tried it on Edge, but it still didn't work. I ended up needing to download their stupid app just to place the order, and uninstalled it right after.
> - MacBook market share is around 10%, so the majority of new laptops are still x86.

You are forgetting ChromeOS, though it only adds ~%1
X > invest in my pyramid scheme

Y > your pyramid scheme has no value, this is a dumb waste of money and it will collapse like suborime mortgages did in 2008

X > what are you, a communist?

Some-something Free Market praise the lord!