skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> try and steel man the argument a bit and think about what is unique and why some people value it.

You were saying that the verifiable provenance is part the value, and I'm saying that that provenance is just as trustworthy as if a centralized service provided it because my trust that what they're asserting (that person X owns token Y) is true depends on how vulnerable they are to tampering, and all these systems are ultimately controlled by traditional factors like how much money you have access to, who you know, etc.
You listen to only one side of the expert argument, that’s an issue. Let’s switch the topic to climate change, would anyone on HN give weight to the 1% of ‘experts’ that deny climate change? No of course not because the consensus of reasonable experts is that climate change is here. Consensus of scientific thought is how we filter for what is true to the best of our knowledge.
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My response to the question “why does reality exist?” has always been: “I don’t know, but we might as well check it out.”
>No, Alan Turing would be pretty bad at digging ditches

It's a contrived example that illustrates something general. It could still be true - maybe Turing would have some insight that let him do half as much labor. But whether it's actually true for him is irrelevant.

Let's say the manager of a McDonald's started out making hamburgers and does it better than any of the other employees, but doesn't normally do it any more, unless there's a crisis and they have to fill in when nobody else is available. Or some software engineer at Google would be better at processing data for litigation purposes than anyone in that industry, yet they outsource the work.
Perusing GHC changelogs since then will show you a _lot_ of new things in the language, compiler, and repl for sure.
Or, in my case, they could just make the back of the phone less smooth than a space telescope mirror so it doesn't slide off a flat table surface over the course of 20 minutes. But it looks really great in the marketing renders, so that's nice I guess.
Do you think Ticketmaster charges so much because their copy of MySQL runs on crushed Ming vases?

They charge as much as they do because they have removed a lot of competition from the market (see e.g. jwz - https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2018/01/31.html). There’s no reason why they would implement an NFT where they’d get less money — in fact, they’re the kind of unethical weasels who’d figure out as many ways to hide fees in the smart contracts and play games with the blockchain they use to maximize their take.
There has since been follow-up work to extend Onsets & Frames to multi-instrument music: https://magenta.tensorflow.org/transcription-with-transforme...
These are the worst type of people.
> But there is so much more that can be done with NFTs. For some thing, ownership actually gives you an advantage.

You mean like this? https://stampery.com/
> The only measure I can think of is supplying a company phone and doing everything possible to encourage people to only use their personal phone for non-business work.

This also assumes life can be neatly separated into business and non-business.
Thanks a lot! I read a few pages and enlightened by what a “class” really is.
> carried the dog pup on the tree and just dropped it from there.

How "not ok" was the dog pup after that?
Let's not forget the UK, which is number two[1] for arms exports.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_arms_export
A bachelor degree loaning me out seems like some sort of hyper capitalist dystopia.
Substack also gives Scott Alexander shipping containers of money, so I can't be too upset.
Could you make a list of these books?

I certainly have seen books mentioned I wouldn't even leaf trough, but this comment is particularly strong - and fascinating
Sometimes the entity you "own" is just digitally signed content.

You can certainly make a perfect copy from it, because it's a digital good, but the copy gives you nothing.
There are several aspects to this. For basically provable immutability + decentralized you could build something on top of ipfs. For provenance (time-stamps and proof of transaction) but also practically tamper proof+decentralized+permission-less then a blockchain is necessary.

That still leaves authenticity, which necessarily runs on trust and reputation. Although you can mechanize and formalize many aspects of reputation, I do not follow the crypto/web3 scene close enough to know the practical aspects of this (my interest are in distributed systems and malicious actor resistant decentralized permission-less systems).

I'd say the reason why people can't just spin up new certifiers is the reputation aspect. With regards to art, people aren't necessarily trading copyright or items but basically a right to brag via verifiable certificates which claim links to origins or creators of some piece.

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EDIT: This is a neutral observation on the unique technical properties of a solution concept not a defense of it. The necessity of storing logs on open/permission-less (no PKI setup) networks, which the provenance aspect runs on, can be argued. But once chosen, there are formal limitations (such as bounds on byzantine agreement and limits on asynchronous deterministic consensus) which force to a particular space of solutions ("blockchains"). The social aspect of status goods and signaling (which I've never understood) or the speculative bubble driver of participation are not commented on.
You can set an upstream SOCKS5 proxy in the settings, in case that helps.
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I agree with another comment here that this is likely them signing up with throwaway emails and trying to get you blacklisted by putting all your messages to spam. In the off chance that they are somewhat more sophisticated, I would try to log these requests and look for SQL injection attacks. It's possible that these bogus signups are an artifact of them doing something more malicious.
I wonder if there is a place on the internet with the format of HN and a not so dissimilar quality of comments but focused on World events, philosophy, art, science ( excluding politics because it's too prone to flamewars).

By the way (off topic), sometimes there are threads on HN, that superficially look interesting, but that feel kind of "primitive" if you are used to read philosophy. I notice them probably because on other forum I just expect the thread to be not interesting at all.

I don't have an example at hand, but in those occasions it made me think there must be some kind of corollary of the "Gell-Mann Amnesia effect"[0] at play.

[0] https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
What is the biggest improvement of this version vs the previous one?
Sure. My point being that the blockchain adds nothing useful. Social consensus does all the heavy lifting, the cryptographic signature is an implementation detail, and the blockchain is wholly unnecessary.
> the app only switches monitors "one way" and relies on itself running on the other computers to switch it "the other way" as needed.

Too bad, I often need a KVM switch exactly when I'm installing a new OS on an embedded system (and from that point on I don't need the switch because I can just use the network to log in and install software).

So this solution doesn't work for me at precisely the moment I need it.
Seconding the recommendation for Thinking About Things [0] and Findka Essays [1].

[0] https://www.thinking-about-things.com

[1] https://essays.findka.com
Value of NFTs is purely fictional and based on some buzzwords with a spice of ponzi scheme on top of it. People who are into NFTs don't care about the functionality and usefulness at all. They are pulled to NFTs and shitcoins by a old get rich quick marketing tactics.
You can use a laser to transmit power wirelessly, or microwaves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer#Far-fi...

It's possible to use directed antenas to give more power to some areas, and less for others, but it's not easy.

All I've read so far to charge your cell phone in the table from a smart device in the ceiling is between dubious science and obvious scam.

Anyway, I'd be very nervous to walk across the beam of a high power wireless transmitter.

And a high power beam from the ceiling to charge the cell in your pocket? They will never convince me to try it.
Who thinks this is a realistic prediction?
You should look at the thesis before embarassing yourself further.
For sabotaging war efforts in countries annexed by Nazi Germany. I guess.
For me it often is up-to-the minute news vs no news. I think the format kind of encourages reporting on everything, not on what's important. The best heuristic I found to decrease wasted time and being more happy is to not read any news and accept that I'll miss something.

I am interested in longer form issues like inequality, economic development, important regulation etc, but don't really consider them news. Reading information on those can also wait a few week or months, and then longer essays or books will have a better analysis.

The bubble-breaking effect of staying informed is valuable, but I don't know how to weigh it properly against spending time well every day. Personally, I found singular focus to be the most satisfying and am not ashamed of that.
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Kill-bots change the moral calculus too. As an example, it's one thing to rush a cop on the assumption that human cop won't just gun you down. It's another to rush a programmed kill-bot. The latter case is obviously just suicide, which is morally on the person committing it, not the tool they use to do it.

I'm well aware there are many different ways besides the above one could argue it, but my key point is that automatons change the moral calculus, no matter what other premises you accept.
I think tamohawks have been able to be programmed with a target hierarchy for a long time, but this is a good point. It seems that The Relevant distinction is automated Friend or Foe identification. Killer drones are not new, but this capability is becoming possible.
I almost decided to preface this with "for those of you who can just buy what you want..."
Will it store the biometric data on the device or will it be uploaded (encrypted) in the cloud?
https://archive.md/5dug6
> Humans have to look at things through the lens of controlling and managing nature for our benefit and put any sentimentality about “balance” and “harmony” aside.

Why? This seems like a religious statement ("man was created in the image of god" and therefore needs to be the apex of creation). What makes us more important than the rest of nature? What makes us think that we're somehow separate from nature?
Do you know of any such programs? I've been wanting to experiment with DDC but like you said, monitor support is sporadic and tooling isn't well known
Chargeback is exactly what I'm going for, but need to wait until the payment settles (couple of days) and then I can start the dispute process (called my credit card provider right after I realised UberEats is not willing to refund), which with my credit card provider is the following:
- Hold the phone for 40 minutes
- Explain the situation
- Wait for a paper letter on the post that includes an empty printed form with a return envelope
- Fill out the form with the exact information I provided on the phone
- Post the return envelope
- Wait

Fortunately I don't mind playing along and I'm pretty sure having this deliberately crazy process (instead of an online form) is a much bigger pain for my credit card provider (who are hoping for churn and people abandoning the process) than myself. Well, not me. It's not the £4, it's the principal.
Except of course, that [i] the provenance of Quentin Tarantino himself minting it (and not also offering his blessing to other NFTs associated with that frame) is entirely trust-based and off-blockchain and [ii] its hard for anyone to argue with a straight face that some cash in digital certificate made by some programmer three decades after the film is the "original" in the same way that, say, a square of canvas that some famous artist actually applied paint to, or at least a garment Travolta actually wore. So whilst the provenance exists, it's more autograph level than original artwork level, and not necessarily a step above a scrawl on a bit of paper in terms of trust and uniqueness.
I agree. Apple is perhaps largely to blame for this. I am a happy iPhone customer, but I cannot deny that I don't really appreciate some of their hardware design choices. Very slippery, so the very first thing I do is put it in a case. So it doesn't matter if it's elegant and beautiful, it's in a TPU case so I don't drop it. Last time I had an iPhone that I didn't use a case for was the 4S. I still think that may have been peak iPhone in some ways.

I have a 13 Pro Max coming Monday, and guess what, sitting on my desk in front of me is the case it will go into immediately after I take it out of the package. Kinda sad. Someone said they're not as slippery as the older phones, but have sharp edges. Okay on something the size of a 4S, not so okay on something the size of a small tablet.
As a starter, I'd love to read these. I bet they explain stuff way better than some paid tutorials
You think too much. When thoughts aren’t purposeful (get from A to B), your mind will wander and frequently lead you to unpleasant places. When you’re married with children, very rarely will you have time to let your thoughts wander.
I couldn’t even find any documentation for my monitor. ddcutil worked great for everything it did support, just not the one thing I actually cared about.
DoorDash refused to give me my money back four years ago and I haven't used them since.

I'm not normally the kind of person to constantly complain about service or ask for refunds, but there was a period of time where their service was terrible. 90-120 minutes to get food, wrong food, spills, so on and so forth.

My first complaint, they gave me credit for the full order. Used that on a second order, which I ended up canceling after 2 hours with no delivery, so they reapplied the credit. The next order was the same thing - 2 hours, no food. So I tried calling them and just asking them to give me my money back instead, and said that I no longer wanted to use their service.

They refused, said I would only be offered credit, but they still closed my account and I get an error any time I try and log in. They just up and kept my ~$60.
Granted but I think this implies there are differences in standard of living in what should be considered poverty.
> When an artist mints an NFT and sells it, the NFT provenance is part of the value.

Except when I buy a painting I can lend it to a museum and get a steady income, with NFTs you are only hoping that some bigger fool will buy your jpg, because everybody sees what you see, and a jpg is not a painting, you don't have to stand in front of it to appreciate it.

An example was the recent sale of the original picture from National Geographic 1983 issue. The "Afghan girl" is one of the most famous pics of 20th century if not the most famous.

The "original" sold for a mere 63k, that's because it doesn't give you anything more than the pic which was on the cover of NG or you have seen countless times on the internet since. Compare it to famous paintings or even a Banksy and it's a very small sum of money.

Most famous jpg sells for less than 1/10 of a mediocre painting

Also most importantly once you have taken the painting from the artist hands you are in power. With NFTs the artist needing money can and will mint the exact same JPG undercutting all the fools who bought the previous NFT.

He will get the money and the praise (ohh distributing his work to everybody instead of select few how cool is him!!!) and you'd get a huge financial loss.
Can anyone share any revenue generating web3 projects/companies that don't rely on speculative holding of various coins or Coinbase like exchanges?

I am interested in learning more but haven't had any luck finding anything of "value".
Besides this, who actually scans the deployed binaries? Just check which version of the binary was deployed, backtrack to the source, and get the dependency tree from there. Problem solved. (Except for shaded dependencies…, but scanning for that should happen at build time anyway.)
I knew, but somehow it feels different. With SCC I spent whole afternoons chasing links, reading and learning.

I don’t get that with substack.
> Some in China really do consider this "payback" for the opium wars.

Considering that the US played NO role at all in either of the opium wars and donated its Boxer Rebellion reparations to help found Tsinghua University (Xi Jinping's alma mater), this false historical narrative is especially lamentable.

Maybe a visit to the heritage park in Guilin honoring the US Flying Tigers in WW II is in order?

https://www.flyingtigershistoricalorganization.com/museum-de...
Sure it does, the NFT sales are like a bill of sale - both parties have to agree on a price before the money & item change hands. But the legal side doesn't really matter for what you'd traditionally want it for, as this public ledger literally cannot be changed by force nor the focus of an entire government attempting to do so (well, they could jail miners and people not using their fork with the forged transaction, but still).
Another commenter mentioned ddcutil which had forgotten about but did use. In my case I used it in a MacBook (Computer #1) and used a different GUI program I can’t remember the name of on my v windows machine (Computer #2).
lesswrong.com maybe? It's an even stronger bubble than HN, but more focused on philosophy and making sense of things.
When Google did this with the Nexus 4 I broke three of them in one week while I waited for a case to arrive.
>I'm a citizen of one of the states you mention and I can assure you: amidst all the disagreement and political polarization, there is complete consensus on not wanting a world dominated by killer robots.

If what people "want" is a nice sounding sentence slapped on a roiling pile of inconsistent sub-wants, then good things aren't going to happen.

Sure, nobody wants "a world dominated by killer robots".

Nobody wants "90% civilian casualties" from those killer robots either.

But if people are asked "would you rather Bob down the street get killed fighting in X or let a drone take the risks", what are they going to say? Yes, screw Bob? And that's assuming that the person asked isn't going to be drafted because there are enough volunteers.

If people are asked, "would you rather use drones and kill civilians, or use other methods and kill many more civilians", what are they going to say? Yes, more is better?
I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but making documents like these public but behind a paywall is just really discouraging and seems contrary to public interest. When I tried to submit feedback to the Times, and the link to submit feedback is behind a paywall too.

I would even be okay if they asked to sign in to access the documents but not need to subscribe.
For a number of years I had read how each generation of Gorrila Glass is 50% or something stronger, yet I was still experiencing broken phones.

So I did a deep dive, long story short, when Gorilla Glass makes a stronger glass, the phone makers make the screen thinner, so we are back to square one.
Depending on the contract some nfts pay out the original creator a percentage every time it’s traded. That’s something you don’t get in most markets.
I addressed the point about symbol tables, and that's assuming the vulnerable code was pulled in via an external dependency or exported directly (flat function/subroutine) from an .SO.

That also assumes that the binary wasn't linked statically - in which case, there are no external symbols to even look for.

Lastly, please stop calling someone educating you "BS".
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24357308

Author's site: https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/

BTW, for some reason I could never get this working on my Hackintosh, keeps crashing the system and never took the time to look into it.
Terrible defaults, as discussed below. Also I kind of dislike the fact telemetry is disabled by default: you’re making all these non-default changes to Firefox, then you’re actively disabling the feature that tells Mozilla you value these non-default features, or any crash reports relating to them?

I get it, wide-ranging telemetry is bad. But it seems like it actively hurts Mozilla to do this.
> but what matters is the actual provenance

The actual provenance cannot be established with NFTs or by cryptographic signatures alone, because anyone can generate a pair of keys and pretend to be someone else.
> Personally the distinction between subroutines and functions always struck me as overly math-centric thinking, because it's not an interesting difference as soon as non-local state exists, which is almost always the case.

It's about command/query separation which is still a best practive to this day.
Mixing cause and effect? Desperation (economic, social life, etc) leads to escapism, among them substance abuse, leading people to lose even more grasp of life and lose their homes?

There's an epidemic of loneliness, I wonder why, is it people having FOMO due to social media, reality TV, etc?
I don't know what people expect. This is a problem that goes beyond the armed forced. This is a general problem across the board as companies and governments are forced to recruit and hire people who are barely qualified.

Every time we have to drop requirements to appease some SIG we lose quality.

At one point I was told I would never be able to fly fighter aircraft because I didn't have 20/20 vision, however now a days, you can be completely blind and they will let you fly just to avoid discrimination lawsuits. Lol.

Bombs away.
I guess when there is a mistake they can put on the restaurant, they are happy to have the restaurant pay for the refund.

When they do the mistake, understandably they'd rather keep the money too :)
You know what it might be: maybe the person is a niche marketer and is going to pretend to be multiple people to sell their product to the newsletter's audience. That happens all the time. Account 1 will ask for recommendations, then account 2-6, all held by the same person, talks up the spammer's product. Although, I don't know exactly how it would work with a newsletter, I know this is very common when comment spamming.
Normally I'll do this if a form wants an email to move forward for something.

They might think they have to fill it in to get access.
Where do you live? Here in NL my experience with ubereats is good. But I think they know they need to compete here. There are other more popular options.

I could see customer service drop as alternatives fall away.
Plastic scratches very, very easily!
"Paying for provenance is just a place to stash wealth"

When you make a Golden Toiler, you don't give a fuck about stashing wealth. You do because you can. Same goes for casinos, etc.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-58529069
Humans are by nature self-serving. For example, it's easy to to point at blockchain as a burden on our environment, but of the people that do so - how many will needlessly consume meat on a regular basis, or by single servings of items in plastic wrapping? It's all just cognitive dissonance.
A OBS developer went into detail here [1] about how they figured this out.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103#29595349
Thank you. The first paragraph says - "resale is out of scope". No, that is the whole scope!