skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's exactly what this is. Bear in-mind that the SEC wrote this title. It was never litigated in court. The fact is that some JPM employees used WhatsApp, and the SEC hasn't the slightest clue what they were talking about. WhatsApp is the most-used communication medium in the world, and JPM employees, as people, sometimes need to use it. JPM probably had a rule in-place that said "never use WhatsApp for business communication," and the SEC has decided that rule isn't enough, and they want to de facto ban all broker dealer employees from using the most important messaging system in the world.
Wyndam-Matson giggled. "That's my point! I'd have to prove it to you with some sort of document. A paper of authenticity. And so it's all a fake, a mass delusion. The paper proves its worth, not the object itself!"
Exactly, it's all about showing off social status. All communities have way to convey status, even HN.
One person, or group of people, realizes you can hash elements in a linked list and we get decades of bullshit. Wake me when this is all over.
I had no idea there was such a severe bottleneck in the recent past. Only 3-10k living humans! It really inspires a sense of how overwhelming geological timescales are, and what a new phenomenon the Anthropocene is.
This is absolutely false in my experience. You pay for startup (100 ms on my system, I think) and for initial compilation, which has still been decently fast for me. Beyond that it's very fast.
At the C-suite level, the bottom line should be the biggest concern. If productivity is as good or better than before, then the obvious choice is to reduce facility related expenses, have more offsite workers and make more profit.

Middle management (and/or CxO’s as you refer to them) will want to return to status quo because the job of aligning the workforce under corporate policies becomes so much harder when the workforce is not in one location. The roles of middle management will need to change in the new work model, and nobody really likes change.

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.
If you actually sat and read it, you'd see that it's a piece of software that sits on each device connected to the USB switch and detects the USB disconnect/reconnect events which trigger when the USB switch is triggered and uses them to detect that the device should try to take control of the display devices.
That's firm empirical grounding right there. A steel bridge joining illusion with materiality
> an order total changed between the time that the user saw the total on the confirmation screen and when they actually hit the button to place the order

> …but presumably the app accepted it anyway…

Not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure things like this would constitute a contract. Of course, whether there’s squirrelly language in the Terms of Service is another question…

EDIT: formatting
For major artworks, people would simply Google the piece and see that it sold for however much money in some headlines previously.

The real issue is proving that a specific sale was the “true” one. There have already been incidents of people trying to sell other people’s artwork as NFTs. If you buy an NFT and the artist later comes out and declares that your NFT wasn’t authorized or licensed or whatever, the value would presumably drop. The artist could then sell the “real” NFT.

Of course, none of this real-world authorization or provenance is actually encoded in the blockchain, nor can it be. The value lies entirely in the off-chain perception of what an NFT represents and whether or not it’s real / authentic / authorized / legitimate.

The blockchain hype has led to a misconception that blockchain solves everything, but they’re all still limited to whatever we all agree the on-chain data represents what we want it to represent.
> matters is the actual provenance.

As the article points out, the blockchain doesn't prove provenance either, that's because anyone can mint an NFT for anything. There's no proof that what's on the blockchain came from the original artist, you must rely on some external trusted authority (like their website, or twitter) to verify the authenticity of the NFT. The artist can just print the PGP NFT on their website and completely eliminate the need for a blockchain altogether. The "Pro-NFT" crowd cannot accept this simple technical truth because it is devastating to the NFT hype train.
This drug epidemic would not have occurred had xenophobes not been allowed to craft law and terrorize the public with fictional propaganda. These drug runners saw an opportunity and took it. It’s no different than what the sackler family did. Both are unjustifiable in civilized society.

https://drugpolicy.org/issues/brief-history-drug-war
Would less funding have prevented the feature being implemented?
Maybe?
I have a coupon code that keeps showing up in my email for something like $20 off from Uber Eats. I usually use Doordash, so I don't end up using it. Eventually they send an email warning that the coupon is going to expire soon, don't let it go to waste, etc. I don't care, so it expires. Then two days later, I get another coupon code for the same offer, and the same set of emails repeat.

This has repeated at least six times. I'm just morbidly curious how long this cycle will go.
That chain, Ethereum Classic, is virtually worthless and unused next to Ethereum itself.
Kind of baffled that nobody has mentioned this yet, but:

Buying illegal drugs online
The first result for USB switch on amazon[0] is the descriptively-titled USB 3.0 Switcher Selector 2 Computers Sharing 4 USB Devices KVM Switch Hub Adapter for Keyboard Mouse Printer Scanner U-Disk, Hard Drives, Headsets, KVM Console Box Compatible with Mac/Windows/Linux.

This device switches your keyboards and mice and so on between two computers. The software in OP reacts to these events and switches monitor inputs using some equivalent of HDMI CEC called DDC/CI.

[0]: https://smile.amazon.com/Switcher-Selector-Computers-Keyboar...
This sounds like a step in a larger tool chain (e.g. making a list of relevant domains for some purpose).

What sort of overall workflow are you using this for?
Screens of today weaken structurally (invisibly) with every drop until eventually reaching the point of failing and cracking.
> Without a published chain of transactions, there is no guarantee that the artist hasn't sold the same item multiple times.

That's not the problem. The problem is every "owner" of such item could just copy it and sell it to multiple people. And they would have no way of knowing they are not the unique owner.

Preventing double-spend is the only thing block-chains do that other things don't. That's why they exist.
There's https://github.com/dmolina/DaemonMode.jl.
> The project's description is shit.

I dunno man, this worked pretty ok for me:

> This utility watches for USB device connect/disconnect events and switches monitor inputs via DDC/CI.

And then a couple lines latter, a sample config that makes it pretty obvious how simple this goes:

> usb_device = "1050:0407" \ on_usb_connect = "Hdmi1" \ on_usb_disconnect = "Hdmi2"

Plug in a device & switches to hdmi1. Unplug & it switches to hdmi2. A USB switch is optional, one could just move where they plug their mouse into by hand, for example. But you don't seem to be interested in helping fill yourself in on anything here, on learning, on using search engines to find anything out. Honestly filling in the neophyte knowledge like that is not what project descriptions are for, in my book.

Generally, dude: relax, chill out. Most everything on this planet could use better description. But this seemed pretty clear & simple to me, at least. I think it'll work for a lot a lot of people as is. No need to be aggressively rude. Have you ever dealt with any kind of soft-kvm like technology before? Perhaps people would more self-select into this kind of project, versus rando's walking in on the street. I think that's ok.
Many of these technologies have been built in the assumption of a world where they run in the company LAN.

No reason to trust, better to isolate.
Babbage's eccentricities and loopier thoughts were always more interesting to me than his writing about the things he's better known for. I read this many years ago but for some reason the part that stuck with me the most was a surprisingly long stretch articulating all the different ways in which organ grinder monkeys were public menaces. His loathing of street musicians was comical but the degree of spite specifically reserved for organ grinder monkeys took it to the next level.

It's been a while since I read it, but I definitely got the sense that that was very much how he felt and he wasn't playing it up for comedy. He wasn't the most likable or relatable guy but he certainly was passionate.
In the book "When Einstein Walked with Gödel" by Jim Holt,
It seems like that assumption is not as clear as it seems.
I am not able to articulate it well enough and I don't have the
book at hand.

If my recall is accurate then there is a bit of a question if
there exists a "final number".
In case you're not aware, the author has continued the blog on Substack: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/

But if it's just nostalgia, then I agree. Substack is slower, harder to navigate, and less Aesthetic.
Wingman is cool and all, but OmegaStar is really holding things up - still waiting on ISO timestamp support:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYvhC_RdIwQ

Shout out to the Galactus team!
Yeah, doing so much more is a bug, not a feature.

> It’s dynamically configurable

It's a logging library. You don't reconfigure logging, you just make another logger and use it. And by the way, you take the configurations from your global configuration system, "dynamic configurable" is a feature of the configuration system, not of the logging.

> supports a wide range of output formats and destinations

Yeah, like network aware templates. (But the destinations are a feature, multiple destinations are one of the few things a logging library should support.)

Despite what people claim, the Java culture of loving complexity never did go away.
I didn't get it at first either. You need a DDC/CI enabled monitor, which means it can switch input via software. Plug one input on each computer.

The USB switch button will send a connect/disconnect event to both computers and they will then react accordingly.
Yes, this is exactly what it is. Basically a KVM switch without the V. I've been using the display-switch software for months and it's fantastic. Using the inputs on the monitors to do the video switching instead of an external KVM switch means that you don't have to worry about finding a KVM switch that can handle the signal bandwidth required (in my case, three 4K60 HDR DisplayPort monitors, which is not a use case for which most KVM switches are designed).

This is the USB switch I use with it: https://www.iogear.com/product/GUS402/
I was being facetious, but yes, this is the actual answer.

Meditation helps me a lot, but the key to cutting out addictive habits for me has always been replacing them with something else, and nothing so far has quite scratched my intellectual itch like studying people online except grad school, and that doesn't count because that's part of what I was studying anyway. Usually, people are encouraged to do other things, but I think for those of us who are genuinely fascinated by the Web, it can be difficult. Imagine if you were genuinely really interested in the medical effects of hard drugs but the only way to study them was to do them.
Memory is cheap. Between large memory usage and slow code, I'd rather have the first. Also, that has never stopped Java from being used.
You just put up chicken wire and the slaughterbots get stuck. Most of these weapons have very low tech countermeasures. Where they're effective is when they're not expected. That might work once.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/why-you-shouldnt-fear-slaughterbot...
I'm wondering about the security implications of this default referrer setting to "Spoof referer (send the same url)" (step "Privacy", third item from the top).

Wouldn't that then bypass all csrf checks, where the site checks if the referer is correct, because your browser is overriding and always setting it to the expected origin?
Actually, reading your post made me realize I do have a point with my original comment. I'm certainly not arguing for communism, and I'm kinda surprised one would take that from my post.

But, as you point out, people will pay for social status. Thus, my hope is that the elites will come to view paying obscene amounts of money for provenance as exceedingly lame. Totally agree, people should be free to spend their money on whatever they want. And to me, if you spend a ton of money on an NFT for the purposes of telling people "I've got the only one of these" (instead of its current primary purpose of looking for a greater fool - that reasoning I understand), it just tells me you're an asshole with no imagination.

Of all the things you could choose to spend money on, be it helping the poor, starting a new company, a wild night out with hookers and blow, a brand new spaceship, whatever, all you could come up with is "I want to be able to tell people I've got the only one of something, despite that anyone else can download an exact, bit-by-bit replica for free". It's just pathetic honestly.
Hence “or whichever the distributor/artist says is the real one.”

This does not prove copyright; it merely proves ownership of a token. It still requires a strong social consensus that the token and its addressable hash was indeed distributed by the artist (as in the case of most NFTs that are trading for any significant sum). This is very much like a certificate of authenticity of an artwork as it also requires social consensus (fwiw, a cert is far easier to forge than, say, a CryptoPunk).
Speaking from experience, download a program that can show what DDC commands your monitor supports before you bother. Mine supports many except… switching inputs (0x60 if I recall).

Documentation for most consumer monitors is pretty lacking in this regard, it seems to be a feature mostly on monitors targeted to the professional market.
Detecting a key of a song is also not deterministic. Some song’s keys are truly ambiguous and/or subjective.
I get similar codes and emails from a variety of delivery and meal kit services that don't work. I figure it's just another "innovative" growth/revenue hack.
Can someone ELI5 why at least some of the problems mentioned can't be solved by a third-party escrow[0]? There even already exist "Internet Escrow" companies, per that article.

The escrow can provide a signed message to the effect, "I, Jess Crow, have received .01BTC from Joe Buyer, and on receipt of signed assurance from Joe Buyer that monkey.jpg has been received by them in satisfactory condition, I have disbursed that amount (less my fees) to Sue Seller who has acknowledged receipt."

This at least removes the question, "was the transaction price as stated, and was it actually paid". It reduces the motivation for fake transactions (immediate kickback to buyer) because of the fee paid to the escrow.

Escrow could be performed in the same, informal way as proposed in the topic article.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escrow
Debian 11.2 Released
Are you sure? At that scale there are so many second order and third order effects that scaling production is likely very nontrivial
Thanks I'll take a look!
There is a lot of debate as to the accuracy and provenance of Meditations. It wasn’t really directly mentioned until the 10th century and it is unknown how true to anything Marcus said our current edition is.
It depresses me that people can name more fictional T.V. characters than they can types of wood. We need to study nature more. Learn about materials.
That's the brilliant thing about being "at scale": as long as the incidents are infrequent enough that doesn't happen to essentially everyone, it's much cheaper to leave a wake of pissed-off ex-customers than it is to hire and support actual customer service.
It counts a very little bit if you are buying it in public while the artist is still alive and producing, because it helps establish the value of their art in a way that they can profit from.

But that's not anywhere near as good as buying it from the artist.
They just program the Automoderator bot to delete those comments
Also there's https://github.com/JuliaInterop/RCall.jl for R interop.
from a purely software perspective and sort of the inverse of this, everyone should be aware of barrier, the fork/continuation of synergy

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

the general concept is you could have 2, 3, 4 or more individual desktop PCs at one desk, each connected to their own displays, and one keyboard and one mouse. The keyboard and mouse are on the primary workstation, you can roll the mouse off the edge of one screen and onto another.

The secondary and tertiary workstation PCs have no keyboard/mouse i/o plugged into them, just power, ethernet and display.
The button doesn't actually send an event

I wrote a similar program, you just listen for something connected to the hub disappearing

if mouse no longer connected:

tell monitor to switch output via DDC

else if mouse now connected:

tell monitor to switch back via DDC
I have a similar setup, but unfortunately I'm stuck with it because my Acer monitor doesn't support the necessary DDC commands
weird, I don't know how the www is getting in there

https://securityplanner.consumerreports.org/
> The NFT part is only the “I paid for this item” part.

The most important thing (or even the only important thing) of cryptocoins and NFT is a proof that "I no longer own it and as such I'm unable to sell it to anyone else."
So here is how it works: The program runs on each computer. You plug your USB devices (presumably, a keyboard and a mouse) into a USB switch and then plug that into each computer. Then you plug each computer into each monitor (so you're limited by the minimum total number of inputs on the monitor(s) for how many computers you can switch).

When you press the button on the USB switch to go to another PC, the software detects this and sends data commands over the monitor connection (using DDC standard) to trigger the monitors to switch inputs. You can use this same data communications standard to do things like adjust the brightness of your display. For example, I have these setup on my Mac to adjust the brightness of my two attached displays (complexity increased with multiple displays and desire for each to change at same time, simpler commands with a single display):

alias day="seq 3 | xargs -n 1 -P 3 sh -c 'ddcctl -d \$1 -b 80' sh"
alias evening="seq 3 | xargs -n 1 -P 3 sh -c 'ddcctl -d \$1 -b 32' sh"
alias night="seq 3 | xargs -n 1 -P 3 sh -c 'ddcctl -d \$1 -b 10' sh"

Does that make sense? As mentioned earlier, you're limited by the minimum number of inputs on the monitor(s) and/or the minimum number of computers the USB switch can be connected to. The simplicity of this system is that the display connections do not go through any switching layer and are instead directly connected to the computers (which avoids a number of compatibility issues).

I should be clear that I haven't used this yet but I'm going to try it. The Acer monitors I'm using have two HDMI ports and 1 DisplayPort so I can in practice attach 3 computers assuming I buy a USB switch which can connect to 3 or more computers.
"6. Trying to increase your costs" would have been my initial guess, failing Hanlon's Razor (8.)
/r/cumtownchat
I think Java had quite a lot to do with making those BSD and Linux boxes run the kind of software people were using for ‘e-commerce’ back then.
When MVPs Hurt
I am curious how you can say it’s “not life changing”. You can literally get back every second of your remaining time on this planet without having to spend it for an employer. A safe 3% withdrawal rate would put you at around $250k a year of extremely tax favored passive income that you get without having to do anything. What the heck.
Sort of unrelated, but I had a similar email issue after I moved between states earlier this year.

Submitted a request for a quote from a moving company, and included the specific date of move in the request. They called me, gave me a quote, but I opted to go with someone else. Moving date came and went, we got settled in, and about a week later the emails came in.

I would get one email per day informing me that they hadn't heard from me yet and needed to hear from me ASAP if I was still interested. They proceeded to include a comment that said they would not stop emailing me until they heard from me. Each email also appeared to be hand-typed by this person every day.

I wrote an email asking them if they even bothered to notice that my move date had come and gone, but stopped myself because, like you, I was morbidly curious. It took them three months of ignoring their, "We won't stop until you call us," emails for them to finally stop.
I think it has something to do with preventing people from running the higher-stability drivers that come with buying a Quadro (or hypothetical super stable FOSS drivers) on significantly cheaper consumer hardware, because that makes it much more difficult to justify buying a Quadro in many circumstances. The added stability is part of the upsell and is more software than hardware.
I make a point to read local news and the comments (and occasionally facebook). I think only reading HN tricks you into thinking people will a) read the whole article b) understand the article c) have read further on the topic d) will contribute respectfully to the conversation and e) cite sources and question things said.
The serial number sticker on my Specialized de-laminated and peeled off after a few years of commuting in occasionally damp conditions. I was kind of shocked that there wouldn't be a better way of uniquely identifying it if I needed to, aside from having pictures of scratches and dings.
That sounds about right for Uber. My wife got screwed for £47 for food that didn’t turn up. The delivery driver stole it, support was useless, chargeback was instantly taken again within two weeks.

The probability of success, the poor support and questionable acts against users mean I will never deal with them again.

This actually went as far as walking back home 7 miles from a club at 1AM because fuck them.

This stuff is normal for them as well https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/ubereats.com
I was pretty shocked that most of the ddcutil & other similar programs on Linux weren't working for two of my monitors. The utils couldn't even detect the DDC display. But I told it what i2c bus to send to & what commands to issue, and it turns out my monitors had a pretty wide range of commands.

Reminds me of an i2c motor controller I bought years ago, based off some avr microcontroller. I spent an afternoon trying to understand how I'd hooked things up wrong, trying to understand why I couldn't read the control values. Turns the soft i2c interface just didn't implement reading values off the controller at all, but served ok if I treated it as a write-only device. Frustrating tricky devices. Sometimes they lie.

But yeah, also a >15% chance your monitor doesn't support switching inputs via DDC/CI. Would be so nice if review sites would cover this sort of thing. As it is, it's just a tech-secret, something invisible to the market, no push to include it, no points deducted for getting it wrong/bad. It leaves a lot of room for the situation to sit & not improve. Better reviewing would help move things along.