skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nonono you don't understand, it was actually "Answer my questions per my extremely benign request including the exact statute requiring your response".

Totally different. Obviously. /s
> yet others spend obscene amounts of money on things with 0 tangible value

Ah, yeah, the impeccable communist logic.

Well actually: Maslow hierarchy of needs. Once the basic needs (food, heat) are satisfied, people want more; a lot of what they want is competitive (zero-sum game) - social status, sex(-ual partners), VIP access, free time.

If you look around the first world, you'll see that even well-fed people can still find many reasons to be sad (increasingly more reasons? mental health issues are rising). But let's be honest in this analysis, communism cannot yield the improvements you want (technology to feed more people) - only free-market capitalism can, some rich will spend money on improving the world, others will trade tokens/paintings.
> I learned Rust a few years ago, but cannot follow Rust code examples published today. It has become markedly more complex in a short time.

Interesting. I suspect this is where our experiences differ the most, I started learning Rust around when it came out and have felt it only get simpler and more consistent over time. I do not see many major differences between Rust written now and Rust written then. The biggest one is async, which is definitely a big difference.
Yes, Disney+ bundle has live sports. Read the site:

> Stream live sports and exclusive originals on ESPN+

> Thousands of live events

> With movies, TV shows, and live sports, there's something for everyone.

They say it 3 times.

Maybe OC meant to say Disney+ doesn’t include ESPN, that would be a true statement. Or maybe they meant to say Disney+ doesn’t include major live sports events, but that wasn’t the claim.

Saying Disney+ doesn’t have live sports is an inaccurate claim. They do in fact offer live sports if you read their offering.
Interesting project. 1864 seems to be the first year that has two completely different items meaningfully discussed.
>I mean, this is kind of the whole point - the published record on the chain is what actually matters. I don't like NFTs, but the anti-NFT crowd doesn't seem to get it and that is just as frustrating.

Are you sure it’s not the pro-NFT people that don’t get it?

It came out recently that the ecosystem around NFTs is all set up to trust OpenSea’s version of truth, regardless of what’s on the blockchain, and so it can be revoked at will.

https://twitter.com/moxie/status/1454863786783875075
The fuckedupness is connected to the vast popularity of authoritarianism over empiricism.

For 99% of the population, what you see is less substantial than what authority asserts. (authoritative individuals, the authority of consensus, mob-style-debate, the authority of the hivemind...)

Yes, it's fucked up. Anti-scientific. Psychotic even.
Windows: The next killer application on the internet (1994) [pdf]
Sometimes it something like "I know you won't want to hear this" or "I suspect you won't like the answer". It is prefacing something like I know you don't want to hear this but I would rather be honest than lie about it.
I also stopped giving to wikipedia when it become clear they had become a political fifth column.
It doesn't scale, is the thing. You can't walk into a macdonalds and walk out with a billion burgers just because you're a billionaire. What seems to make sense on a micro level is completely nonsensical on a macro level. Money is mostly tied up in property, stock, loans and financial derivatives anyway. It's largely a ficticious element, which is printed by the billions every day.
It doesn't seem to be a joke.

https://www.hsdl.org/?abstract&did=750070
The Real Real is a $1b company because people care about provenance in the real world and now there's a place for it in a digital space. Do I think Bored Apes are worth thousands of dollars? Absolutely not. Will it crash? Absolutely.

Do I think it is starting as a stupid toy and may eventually do more interesting things? Yes. If Reddit gives you an NFT for being a top poster for a year in a specific subreddit so you can show it off on Discord and Twitter, I don't see much value in that, but there are plenty of people who do, a lot.
There's also ongoing work to build a dependency vulnerability database. This is proposed to be surfaced via a built in `go audit` command.

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-v...
ESPN+ generally has the less popular teams and sports that aren't worth putting on the cable ESPN channels (ESPN, ESPN@, ESPNU, etc.)
"Men and women are exactly the same in every way that is societally meaningful, but it remains critically important that people can surgically switch between those genders at will."
Read up on LinkedIn vs. HiQ. As long as that ruling holds (and it might not), the tl;dr is: If it's on the open web, you can scrape it. You might be violating some Terms of Service (that you never agreed to), but you're not violating (US) law.

If it's NOT on the public web - e.g. it's behind a login, then you can be sued, as you'll have had to explicitly agree to Terms of Service during your account creation and you'll then be in explicit violation of that ToS.
Doing the right thing is expensive in many different ways; time, money, opportunity, etc.

Whenever a company exploits a process to squeeze out extra profit we all assume the newly externalized costs. All products should be recycled at the end of their life and the costs involved should be built into the price. Some states mandate a redeemable deposit for cans and bottles. Perhaps every the United States could craft a responsible recycling program that tacks an appropriate tax onto a product that reflects the cost of a recycling the worst 10% off products in a category. I gladly pay to safely dispose my household waste responsibly, why must I continue to pay for companies that cleverly escape bearing these costs? The harms have been exhaustively calculated and established. I’m sick of being terrorized by belligerent psychopaths that feel entitled to pollute and contaminate everything they set their insatiable eyes upon.
You'd have to run it yourself. There's a docker image available but it's a pretty big download (11.7GB)
Rich people spend money on useless things, provenance isn't required to pose the same question. End of the day life has no meaning and people find it in whatever they do. It's unfair that people starve while others have so much but such is the universe. The photon that gets gobbled up by a dark hole doesn't think itself more or less lucky or worthy than the photon that crosses the universe.
I am able to achieve this by supplementing with the amino acid precursor N-acetyl cysteine. I've done the container goal with paper clips, have used pomodoros, full-time accounting, to-do lists, commitment devices, aversion stimulus, and on and on. I don't use any hacks or techniques any more.
It depends - can you do without whatever account you are disputing a charge for? Amazon, Uber, Apple, Google and so on will basically just immediately close your account when you dispute any transaction. No more access to apps or books or movies associated with that account.
Why not just do things like instant messaging? Everyone signs their email and you only accept email from people you know. Define an introduction message format that would get run through a spam filter and be put in a separate folder. If you want to interact with the entity that sent the introduction then you add them to your keys.

Can be done entirely with stuff available in the fundamentally broken model. I mean, if you want to accept email from just anyone, how can you complain when just anyone sends you email? Not a technical problem, it is a people problem.
Aww where's the fun in that?
> an easily accessible website

Right... they can just post the PGP NFT to their website, no blockchain required.
I can't help but feel like it doesn't even matter if NFTs (and cryptocurrencies) are a scam. At this point just the mere fact that you can provably show some NFT was sold for millions is enough, some people entering these scams will still get rich, it's just the people at the end that won't. But looking at it this way, there are plenty of people willing to take the risk to try and be those early people that get the money and don't get screwed, so it doesn't really matter if it's a scam or not in the end.
> the Japanese were willing to surrender on the sole condition that they keep their emperor

Heh, that's quite the narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%C5%ABj%C5%8D_incident
This person has €7M, they should not care at all about the above advice.
It seems like the consumer side is the one catching up and IoT is the buzzword marketing calls it, kinda like "the cloud".
If we've learned one thing from capitalism it's that it is _not that unlikely_ for a small group of people to get more than half of all the money. The structure still concentrates power.
Approximately 6 million people have been hospitalized with Covid in the US. I don't accept your horrible premise that old people don't count, but let's run with it for the moment. About 25% of hospitalized people are less than 65 years old. So, 6% of 1.5 million people comes to 90,000 non-old people with some form of longer term cognitive impairment. Is that a large enough number of non-old people to engender even a tiny bit of compassion?
If you're a regular at the restaurant (and willing to speak to them on the phone), why not order from them directly?
> 10% fee for the buyer and a 15% fee

What are the gas fees and how do they compare to the average concert ticket?
> I can't figure out if you're talking about a nuclear war changing the world, or a nuclear disarmament process that somehow also leads to energy production.

My apologies - the latter.
> Nostalgia does not guarantee me personal autonomy. Neither does it guarantee me a right to self defense. Nor does it guarantee a free practice of religion, free press, or a right of association.

> Ensuring the survival of a nation state that adheres to the US Constitution will guarantee those things.

This is _precisely_ the uncultured nostalgia I'm suggesting is unworthy of our defenses.

I absolutely support your right to bear arms in your defense. To be free in your religious exercise and associations and speech and press, and in the security of your effects against intrusion.

But the US is not, as you say, a nation state that adheres to the US Constitution in any broad and universal sense.

We have two million people living in cages. Five million more living under supervision of a system of slavery rebranded as carceral rehabilitation. Drugs and medicines and sacraments subject to capricious regulation at best, and often outright prohibition. Fiat currency. Arms which are practical as tools of self-defense unavailable to a quarter of the population.

And I'm not sure that anybody other than (some) white men have _ever_ had these things securely in their civic possession.

So the question is: _can_ a state be the bearer of insurance for these things? Especially now? Why can't we protect each other? Engage in commerce regulated (which is to say, made regular) by the internet alone? I have no idea what the benefits are of the continued existence of the US State, but the downsides are absolutely evident and very real on a daily basis.

> Take a look at China and their authoritarian take on "the internet".

I take your point, absolutely. But doesn't China and the Great Firewall also provide us with an example of failure of authoritarian tendencies as they apply to the internet?

May 35th lives on largely as an internet meme. The official truth may dominate in circles where it can be violently maintained, but those shrink in the face of connectivity, no?
Is the way people can tell which blockchain is a fork because it is shorter than the original? And it is shorter because of the difficulty of adding blocks via proof of work?
Yes, it's not trivial because evolution stops caring about you after you reproduce.

It's also a little unclear whether we should consider the % difference convergence remarkable, given that mortality at older ages is so much higher and the absolute difference may not show much convergence.
I keep using this example in NFT arguments but no one has actually done it yet. Screw it, I’m going to launch this and prove it works (or admit my defeat lol). Time to open vscode.
Ask HN: What does LetsEncrypt prove that a public key in a DNS record doesn't?
As I understand it, the ACME protocol used by services like LetsEncrypt simply proves you control a domain. But to my rather security-naive self, it seems like you could just put a TLS public key directly in a domain record, and have browsers read that. I'm confident there are good reasons this won't work, and I can even guess at a few, but I'm looking for good resources that explain the ins and outs of the security implications here.
And what makes you think that ticket sellers would implement such a system? The pure goodness of their hearts?

(My understanding is that NFTs can be constructed to charge a fee on transfers. At least, this is what I've been told by people trying to promote their use for artwork...)
Example solution:

You assume that the UI/marketplace you're viewing the NFT in doesn't do this for you. If something is sufficiently famous (ie the artist is well know to the UI) it's trivial to validated that an NFT is made by one of those artists and have the equivalent of a twitter blue checkmark.

For stuff that's not sufficiently famous, then the question of duplicates is probably not a real problem. Who cares if someone copies a <$1 digital asset. And if the artist ever becomes famous and is back-filled into the UI's known list, then all their previous works gain the blue checkmark.

These UI's will probably have a few centralized winners (which is why VC's fund crpyto startups) but there can be a long-tail of decentralized UI's as well. How much you care about authenticity will guide you to which UI's your willing to use.
Of course it scales. Sure, he'd probably need to call ahead (like, way ahead), but if a billionaire wanted to buy a billion burgers, it's not like that's an impossibility.
My point is that because some privacy laws are written so that they affect such sites (GDPR for example), it is a good idea for sites to try to be aware of new privacy laws so they can check if those laws are that kind of law.

If they are not, then when someone makes a request under that new law it is just a matter then of responding with a pre-canned response explaining that the law does not apply instead of being a panic and/or stress inducing incident.

And someone will eventually make such a request. Users don't check details. They just know that their jurisdiction has a privacy law and under it they can request things. They don't check to first to verify the site meets the law's thresholds for applicability or is under the law's jurisdiction.

If the new law does apply to your site, same idea. You want to find that out and figure out how to deal with it before you get a request instead of your first request being a scramble to comply.

Note that I'm not saying that kstrauser mishandled anything. I think that most of us overlooked that small non-profit hobbyist sites needed to keep an eye on the privacy law landscape. Kstrauser happened to be the unlucky person who fate chose to use as an example of how annoying it can be too have to figure out on short notice where your site stands as far as a given law goes, even if the answer turns out to be "that law doesn't apply to my site".
Right now US trending topics that show up for me are football, mets baseball, a celebrity birthday, #caturday, YouTube TV losing disney, Bleach anime, a popular basketball player who was vocally anti-vax entering covid protocol and is barred from playing, Taylor Swift, and an Esports team playing Halo Infinite. I can see worldwide trends but not directly on Twitter.

It's not all important news, but it's really different from what I see on HN and what I would choose to read about.

The news category on twitter for me shows #hodl, a shooting in japan, #womenwhocode, Theranos trial, Amazon warehouse working conditions, Maxwell trial, Omicron news from South Africa, California wildfire, among other things.
Most "LiPo" batteries are typically the same chemistry as your "Lithium-ion" but without the puncture and pressure resistant casing. The plastic pouch is the "polymer" part. LiPo batteries are lighter and can produce more current than basically the same thing in a safer standard container.

So yeah, big difference in safety, not really a difference in the chemistry.

The above was explained to me by someone I believe knows what they're talking about. But I may have misunderstood; if I have, please let me know!
What I don't understand is the focus on media NFTs. On both sides.

To me, it's obvious that owning an image or a song doesn't give you any advantage over just "right clicking" it.

I can look at it, the owner can look at it, that's basically what you can do with most media.

But there is so much more that can be done with NFTs. For some thing, ownership actually gives you an advantage.

I own my drivers licence and my bachelor degree. Other people can look at them too, like I can, but looking at them is not the actual value of them.
Their Android TV app on my Shield TV is a tire fire. It's really the only reason I haven't committed to a full year discount. I'm not sure how much longer I want to deal with it.
Whilst I agree with your sentiment, I do think that including
The Financial Times (ft.com) with Reddit, FB, and Insta.

FT is one of the few newspapers that I feel still doing serious journalism
that I can sit down with, read and feel better informed at the end of it.

A good newspaper and I do prefer paper if at all possible, is a stimulating source of reading. Most newspaper has given 90% of their space to
gossip, sports, "lifestyle" WTF does that even mean? I still have not figured that out, lifestyle of the rich and famous, random paid for content.

I have for a long time wanted a service that curates today's real news and
presents it in an easy-to-read format.
I would prefer an epub, could take a pdf.

Nothing that exists today that I as a regular person could afford.

I do think it would be fun to see what the presidential write-up is every day.

Hmm maybe I can find it declassified from years in the past??

(I have no love for USA Today so I dont try to argue that one. )
But at the end of the day a "website" -- whether it's a large organization, a small business or a sole proprietor-- is still maintained by people. There might be a process in place if it's a large enough company, it might even get directly sent to the lawyers to deal with.

But at the end of the day someone has to look at the email and respond, and in many cases that can cost money.

To wave off the whole thing as "we're contacting a website not a person" just shirks all the responsibility of ethically experimenting on people, which is what the study actually does.
Downvoted for pointing out that the narrative of ‘Cultural Marxism’ invading our educational institutions by way of the Frankfurt School is a well-known anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Amazing.

If you're not familiar with the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_th...

I assume the renewed credibility of such nonsense with the HN crowd is due to the susceptibility of engineers with little humanities or history education to the work of contemporary hacks like Jordan Peterson, who have re-cast the same conspiracy as ‘postmodern Neo-Marxism’ and papered over it with a veneer of (‘classical’) liberalism. But proper neo-Nazis have been very up front about their use of the conspiracy theory:

> A number of years later a fringe neo-Nazi group called "Stormfront" could boldly express what had hitherto only been insinuated, and in so doing really spill some foul-tasting beans:

> Talking about the Frankfurt School is ideal for not naming the Jews as a group (which often leads to a panicky rejection, a stubborn refusal to listening anymore and even a "shut up") but naming the Jew by proper names. People will make their generalizations by themselves - in the privacy of their own minds. At least it worked like that with me. It was my lightbulb moment, when confusing pieces of an alarming puzzle suddenly grouped to a visible picture. Learn by heart the most important proper names of the Frankfurt Schoolers - they are (except for a handful of minor members and female "groupies") ALL Jews. One can even quite innocently mention that the Frankfurt Schoolers had to leave Germany in 1933 because "they were to a man, Jewish," as William S. Lind does.

http://canisa.org/blog/dialectic-of-counter-enlightenment-th...
> guess is that it's to avoid buckets that make it seem like they're owned by google

You might be right, though that is kinda silly because it's trivial to add a cname dns alias to a bucket that looks like a googly name.
I agree with your general feeling that new technologies need to be given a certain benefit of the doubt since by definition they are far from production... we literally don't know how or what they would be used for.

However, in this case I have a little bit too much knowledge about the field and I have to say that it's "not even wrong"... it reads like gibberish. Yes perovskites can be used to generate nano-particles which generate light on amorphous glass substrates. But the need to use lead based materials, or glass substrates, the difficulty of manufacture or the low efficiency, and so on are not advantages. They are disadvantages.

In summary this discovery takes us no closer to unbreakable phone screens for a multitude of reasons, but primarily because what breaks (cracks, shatters, scratches, yields) is the cover glass rather than for example the OLED display, which are now primarily made from/on flexible substrates anyway. It is solving some orthogonal set of problems that are not laid out in the article, and which I as an expert am unable determine after reading it without searching for the original source material.
Unscratchable is available. There's glass with a sapphire layer. Sapphire glass is often used for checkout scanners. Home Depot uses it.

Apple tried to use sapphire glass for phone screens around 2014, but only succeeded in driving their sapphire maker into bankruptcy.
> The money they pay also has 0 tangible value.

That money absolutely has tangible value. If Jeff Bezos is willing to pay $500 million for a yacht, but I'm willing to pay $600 million to build schools, the market should favor building the schools and society ends up with a bunch of schools rather than a single super yacht.

That's why we need some kind of significant wealth tax. Take the money away from people that will choose to allocate resources to yacht building and other frivolous things and spend it on stuff that has an obvious benefit to society.
This is almost never the criteria people use as it is often not that important. Productivity is often a bigger factor. Security and Robustness is another factor. Libraries is another, portability, Platform limitations, Domain problem to be solved. Most software these days isn't really constrained by speed, if the software ran 10x faster, you'd only get marginal gains.
An NFT is not a digital representation of a piece of art.

An NFT is a token whose identity and value is independent of all other tokens.
The original claims are garden-variety BS.

Library .so files are not harder to scan than jar files. They just need different tools, which everyone has. And Java systems are not easier to patch than others.
I just tried this and it works very very nicely! Thank you for sharing!
But then every once in a while you run across someone who makes you say, "Hmm."