skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean news not related to tech. World events, politics, philosophy, art, science (outside of CS), etc. A forum of programmers and developers where mainstream news isn't even on topic unless it presents evidence of some "new or interesting phenomenon" isn't going to post the most important news of the day to begin with (it would likely be flagged as off topic) nor be capable of in-depth conversation about such matters most of the time.

Hacker News just isn't the place to go to be informed about the world.
Archived version of the original paper: https://archive.ph/unuNw
That's really strange. Only thing I can think of is the person is using multiple throwaway email accounts to join your newsletter. They are then marking all your messages as spam in an attempt to get your email blacklisted. Hopefully someone has a less malicious explanation.
How do you know which blockchain is the original. How do you distinguish between the original blockchain and a fork?

After all most these things are on etherum, which itself is a fork.
I really don't understand the use case of NFTs for in game assets. How is using a block chain to trade assets an improvement over the in game marketplaces we already have for games like TF2, DotA2, etc?
FWIW, I'm fine with recruiting disciples from right-libertarians circle. I'm totally onboard with "freedom from coercion". And that's a pretty good place to start from.

As an activist, I spoke to anyone and everyone who'd have me. Socialist, Green, Libertarian, Democratic, Republican, and all sorts of nonpartisan orgs.

At the time, I felt everyone's core values were more or less the same. Opinions started to diverge over priority. More so with implementation. Then game-over once the dialog drifted into personalities.

I gotta believe that the way forward is flipping the script from nitpicking over differences to emphasizing our agreements.

And I sense that one of our shared, unifying, omni-partisan values is our mutual hatred of bureaucracy. Of any kind. Corporate and governmental.
Agreed. In a capabilities system you'd see that, for some reason, your logger requires all sorts of absurd capabilities for no reason.
Do it manually. I wonder what automatically means legally or scraping. It’s pretty hard to enforce those requirements, because I assume it’s being broken by search providers.

If it’s a derivative work like copilot, I wonder if there’s a legal case to say you can’t do it. I assume you’re doing something like an RSS feed for pricing suggestions with commissions? I just looked this up and it seems like it’s legal to do so but their information is copyrighted. https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/15556/is-scraping-re...
I just tried this with Sexy Sadie and the result was awful.
This looks fantastic, I was recently disappointed to learn that there don't seem to be any good KVMs under ~$200, that support anything higher than 4k@60Hz.

Apparently Thunderbolt/DisplayPort are not really a thing yet for some reason, so I ended up getting a USB (KM) switch instead. With this project, it looks like I'll be able to have my cake and eat it too.
Very fair question! On Ethereum the fee would be stupid high. However Polygon has fees of around $0.02 so say I'm looking to make myself a bit of a profit for making the UX nicer with a website we'd be looking at around $1 fees.
So the real value of an NFT isn’t in the mechanism at all.
In defense of provenance, there's value in saying "I have contributed to this by chipping in". You can print off a digital painting on your inkjet, but paying for a signed print means you are enabling the artist to create more art, and you can justifiably take pride in that.

Of course, that's not how the world works. I wish provenance of something was not as valuable when we're talking about art made by dead people (or already reach and famous). I wish art was not used as a money store. And I feel that NFTs - and this PGP-based idea in particular - offer a possible solution to this, due to this one bug-that's-a-feature:

>Without a published chain of transactions, there is no guarantee that the artist hasn't sold the same item multiple times.

In short, the value cannot be driven up by scarcity, because there is no way to verify that. What you pay for is the record of paying someone.

We kind of have this with political donations already (public rosters of donors serve that purpose), and we have Patreon, but if I wanted someone to take pride in supporting my art with $5 - and make them able to publicly show off, which helps me too - there's no obvious way to go about it without physical tokens, or relying on 3rd parties, like Patreon, which may or may not exist in 10 years.

That's one reason vinyl and tapes are taking off like crazy. It's not just about the medium. The physical token matters.

The inherent flaw of NFTs-as-stores-of-value (and digital signatures/provenance proofs in general) may also be their saving grace.
Not only is it trivial, but a number of smart contracts support "flash loans", allowing users to receive a temporary loan of a large amount of cryptocurrency so long as it can be proven that it will be paid back immediately through other contracts. They're a common tool in smart contract exploits.
If the person/entity minting them commits to only using a particular address/public-key when minting (such that only ones from that address would be regarded as legitimate), then one can still check all the transactions they’ve made, and,
well, if they mint tokens for other files which you don’t know what those files are, and have no way to retrieve them, then yes, you could be uncertain as to whether or not those are essentially the same image but with some noise added.

If there is a list of what all those files are though (maybe the files are all available for download on the author’s website? Doesn’t have to be the author’s, just any source providing each file. Doesn’t need to be a trusted source either.), you could check that none of them are essentially the same.

Though, the reliance on all the images being publicly available, does go against what it seems like the way many seem to want to use NFTs,

and so for the use cases which are completely incompatible with all the images being publicly available (e.g. people who want to be the only person who has access to an image), your point is entirely valid, and there is presumably no way to achieve the use-case that those people seem to want.

As for “what about on other technologies” I think this fits under the “the author should just make well-known all the [address+chain combos] they issue from, and instruct people to treat as illegitimate any which is issued from a [chain+address combo] that is outside of this well-known list as illegitimate” thing.

It doesn’t seem like that serious of an issue?

That being said, I don’t see much point to tokens like these. I’m just talking about "what can be done under different goals + assumptions" .
Hoo boy, this one's good (from the same article): "Police suspect Savuth and Yulisa Yin in the death and cover-up of a Longmont real estate broker. They’re charged with stealing $3 million in property from him. They were let out on $500 cash bonds each, even after prosecutors presented evidence that they planned to leave the country."

That's Boulder for you
Someone looking up the exact statute and quoting it, while not a direct legal threat, certainly carries a lot of implied threats. People don't just look up legal statutes for shits and giggles.
I’m going to stop you right there.
If that were the case then manually setting the clock speed would be supported but it would lock out any speeds higher than the OEM configuration.
Laziness and sloth are the same thing
Indeed, science was simply known as "natural philosophy", as in Newton's "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", i.e, the Principia.
My opinion, NFT is mostly a scam for the next round of investors. How long it will last, I have no idea. But it’s not sustainable.

Just my opinion, feel feel to roast me.
Well, yeah. So what's in it for them?
You only need a hundred digits to know the circumference of the universe within the accuracy of the diameter of hydrogen!
What advantage do you get from NFTs?
Why not? If you get good at it, you can learn to quickly tell which wallpaper symmetry group a given tiling has. On most psychedelics the hallucinations are easily identifiable as belonging to one of the 17 wallpaper Euclidean symmetry groups. It turns out that on DMT you see symmetry groups that are none of those... and then you realize... wait, I'm seeing a flat surface tessellated by heptagons! This means... the space is hyperbolic! What's the epistemological issue here? :-)
That's what "fiat currency" means. The green piece of paper is useless in a vacuum (maybe unless you're a fan of tiny origami or in search of kindling), but because everyone just agrees (and the US government enforces) that a particular kind of green paper with a "$5" printed on it has a certain value, then it can be used as a medium of exchange.
In Russia, you own bachelors degree. In Soviet America, bachelors degree loans own you.
In other words, you are not actually interested in programming.
Why did you repost the document that is already the subject of this entire thread?
> Owning scarce items gives them status.

NFTs are not scarce. A painting is scarce because you can never replicate the original painter physically impressing whatever they see in their mind on a blank virgin canvas. If the original painter happens to be on the right side of the Power law and becomes famous, then the painting value also skyrockets because said canvas was touched by them (e.g. Leonardo da Vinci)

Stuff on the internet cannot be scarce, you'd need the metaverse with its own rules to create scarcity. E.g. "Ferraris" and "Lamborghini" cars in GTA V. Their rarity is enforced but as soon as the internet gets hold of it then the scarcity is immediately eliminated on the PC version with mods
They're organizationally different, though, and therefore have different outcomes because the frictions lie in different places.

With the centralized solution all responsibility is defined with the operator. In practice this means that virtual goods markets are underexplored because it's a huge platform service investment - only the likes of Valve and Roblox will consider it. And in those cases it's also a monopolistic play since the exits from the market are barricaded in various ways, with restricted APIs and hidden data and so on.

The blockchain solutions create a public database with multiple frontends. A third party can add on whichever service they want to, e.g. verify the data's provenance, present trading opportunities or incentives. Therefore the platform builds from an aggregation of independent services, more like the early Internet.

This is the "consensus" part of the tech in action, and also differentiates it from signed receipts. The agreement of consent precedes the participation. If you don't like the agreement, it's public data, so you can launch alternatives. Threat of forking keeps stakeholders willing to stay at the bargaining table. It doesn't matter if you are a well-capitalized stakeholder if you torpedo the value of the chain. However, the early entrants to every space in crypto look scammy and try to jump ahead with hype because it's faster to run a scam than to actually work through the civic problems of maintaining the chain. To date, they always wash out with the bear markets.
Most restaurants don't offer delivery.
Welcome to public-facing application security :) Any number of reasons, potentially more than one at once:

1. Being a dick / bored / ...

2. Pen-testing you for some reason.

3. Trying to inflate your signup numbers for some reason.

4. Trying to see how many users you have (see other comment)

5. Testing their own fake email system for something

6. Trying to increase your costs

7. Demonstrating something for someone else not realizing it's production

8. Pure, unadulterated incompetence

9. Something else malicious
No roast, I think most of that stuff is crap.

But, I also think, the rest that is left when the bubble pops could be an improvement over the status quo.
This would require a smart contract, a react front-end to make the UX a little nicer, and a little maintenance. If I charge $1 fees per ticket tx I'd undercut the market and it wouldn't be that hard.
Which part do you feel is overly political? I thought the above technical description to be very interesting and relevant.
> 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.

That's only because the super rich are dictating what's in demand. If you take all the money being spent on luxury watches and start spending it on dental care for children, the market should reduce the supply of watch makers and increase the supply of dentists in order to meet the demand for each.
C Programming on System 6 – Implementing Multi-User Chat
Sharing the opposite experience: 1 out of 5-10 orders I've placed over the years have arrived with missing/different items. Every time, I got refund either for that item or the entire order instantly, effectively resulting in free meals. This is why I'm reluctant to use any other food ordering app since my experience trying to get a refund with the other ones have been bumpy.
Yep, didn't think of that
> We should probably change the phrasing from black to something else, though.

illegal budget sounds good to me...
Hah, I was hoping traddit would be text posts about people making pies and woodworking and marriage that skips the inspo photos.
Pfizer executives say Covid could become endemic by 2024
Sure! The tricky bit here, in my mind is:

1. How do you know the ticket is valid?

2a. How do you know I send the ticket after you pay me?

2b. How do I know you send the money after I send the ticket?

3. How do you know I don't send the ticket to someone else too, if it's digital?
I created a Web3 app and here's what I learned
Don’t they? Free and open source stuff is often an implementation of closed source or commercial goods.
Without Bell labs, there’d be no Unix, no BSD, no Linux. Commercial can run by itself, but free systems cannot. Linux isn’t GPL3, so the rights still belong to the programmers.
Send an email to the proper looking address and ask them what's up with all the different sign-ups. Check in to see if they're experiencing technical problems or something that you can help with.

Also report back here because now we're curious too ;)
NASA officially touches the Sun – and solves a solar mystery
That FAQ is from 2005, is it still the preferred abbreviation in 2021?
If defi hacks can be conceivably clawed back under legal threat, I don’t see why a legal structure like a foundation can’t be relied upon to onboard new administrators of the Git repo.

We could use something like multi-signature Git commits [1] to enforce repo integrity. Clients could cross-check the signatures against an approved list published by foundation members. Anyone who co-signs an unapproved fork of the foundation’s repo could have their shares in the foundation slashed.

Post a ledger containing $JPEG balances to the Git repo, and require prospective foundation members obtain N JPEGs to apply for membership.

The ledger would operate at a snail’s pace, but “blockchains don’t scale”. We’d just need someone to design the “L2” of Git.

[1]: https://github.com/hashbang/git-signatures
Thanks. It's not only Oberon, but Oberon+ as specified here: http://oberon-lang.ch. You can even mix the traditional and new syntax, as e.g. demonstrated here https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem/tree/FFI.
I agree that the most "interesting" hallucinations are not the trippy patterns you see. But, take note, if you pay really close attention to it, you will realize that in fact there is a dual relationship between the geometry of the hallucinations and the vibe of the experience. Indeed, I was not the first to figure this out (though I did figure it out independently). Steven Lehar has been talking about it for ages - and he writes about it in his book The Grand Illusion (http://slehar.com/wwwRel/GrandIllusion.pdf).

Seriously - next time pay close attention and you'll see how the shape of the configurations you hallucinate determines how the "waves of energy" bounce off of them, which in turn gives rise to harmonious or dissonant interactions between them. So you can in fact modulate your mood by making your hallucinations more symmetrical.

Check out this article for more about that: https://qualiacomputing.com/2020/12/17/the-symmetry-theory-o...
Do you see yourself ever using a phone docked?
Something I realized: NFTs are basically "adoptables" from DeviantArt, with crypto mumbo jumbo attesting that you have adopted the adoptable, instead of relying on the community. A lot of the artwork involved even looks like adoptables.
Web scraping on demand: https://zvelo.com/
in the service of adtech, ofc.

Re: URL Database for Brand Safety & Contextual Targeting
https://libredd.it/img/g1o5jeeok8681.jpg

You weren't kidding. Fraud doesn't get more blatant than this
The Arc of Collaboration (2019)
Accenture, is that you?
Wolfram literally say Mathematica is intended to be for all computational purposes. From the article: "our vision is a grand one—unify all of computation into a single coherent language".
The mechanism is extremely simple, see [1].

The value lies in the token which - much like art - is worth whatever somebody is willing to pay for it.

[1] https://gist.github.com/mattdesl/c1eff283039b73a093c7777d112...
The burger did not come into existence because of the existence of the 5 dollar bill. If it were, you could print out burgers for cheap!
I think people are hoping they become semantically equivalent to rai stones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones

These were discs of a special stone used as stores of wealth by the Yap Islanders. Over time, both because of the difficulty of moving such a large stone, and to protect it from damage, it became customary to simply keep the stones where they were and maintain an agreed upon (oral in this case) log of the history of ownership of the stone. There were even stones that sank in transit between the islands, and since everyone agrees the stone existed and no one has a way to pull it up, you can just keep the log of ownership going even with no people having physical access to the stone.

Where the comparison falls flat for me is that those stones started as a (at least for the purposes of this conversation) fairly traditional currency that large chunks of their economy depended on, before transitioning to a more abstract concept. Not that many people's retirements are tied up in beanie babies (albeit probably non zero) so there isn't that structural and heavily collective force of will to maintain value. That's what NFTs look like to me.
This is humbling.

While from a purely technical standpoint I fully understand it's doable, the dedication and skill required is, well, rather striking.
I miss SSC so much
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7645411
So a jpeg? ;)
Maybe the great filter is just competing organic life forms that eventually make swarms of killer silicon life forms (robots).

It seems entirely inevitable that these machines will be everywhere policing the masses for the powerful few.
This only counts if you’re buying it from the artist directly.
> As I understand it, the ACME protocol used by services like LetsEncrypt simply proves you control a domain

Yes, but note that this is true of all Certificate Authorities. There is nothing special about ACME here.

> it seems like you could just put a TLS public key directly in a domain record, and have browsers read that

Ignoring DoT/DoH, DNS records are sent in plaintext with no integrity checks - anyone on your network path can replace the public key response with one of their choosing, allowing them to MITM your connection. DNSSEC provides integrity of DNS responses, and if it were more widely adopted then people could set their certificates as DNS records - this is precisely what DANE [1] is. But, DNSSEC will never see wide adoption.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based_Authentication_of_Na...
You've hit upon some of my favorite pieces. Any of Lang's opus pieces are amazing (I really like the rock climber that sticks out of a piece of paper).

Satoshi Kamiya's works are also pretty darn amazing (the wizard, the dragons, etc.).

Lang really brought out the science in origami (he's en ex-rocket scientist turned origami pro), and wrote software for calculating the fold patterns and extraction points from paper for pulling out points of manipulation (like limbs, etc.)
I hate the antichrist is good magic
When it comes to fake artwork you at least need to be skilled enough to produce a convincing fake, which isn't trivial. In the NFT world anyone can trivially mint an NFT for anything, at any time, so there's no way to prove that "the first one" is the "real" one without relying on a trusted authority outside the blockchain. Thus any need for a blockchain is completely obviated.
> Library .so files are not harder to scan than jar files.

Of course they are. You can trivially reverse engineer Java bytecode back to Java, with almost everything except generic annotations due to erasure, and a few other small things. Tools have been around for ages that do this[0], and while they're not perfect, they can re-generate nearly perfectly compilable source code.

.so files are ELF files, which means while they have sections, those sections don't typically reveal much about the internals of the code. This means you need to convert machine code (assembly) back to a higher level language - which is not a trivial transformation. There are tools that do do this (e.g. hexrays[1]) but they are far from perfect, especially for optimized machine code.

Java systems are very, very easy to crack, RE and patch. There are virtually no protections. JAR injection is still a valid means of patching a Java application. No, manifest files and integrity checks are not a security measure but an error detection measure, and are trivially bypassed.

If you asked me to choose between patching this vulnerability in a .JAR vs a .SO, I would choose the .JAR any day of the week.

[0] http://java-decompiler.github.io/

[1] https://hex-rays.com/
The usual answer is that representing those assets as NFTs will somehow make them portable to other games.

This is, of course, a pipe dream. First of all, there's no business reason for any game to implement this feature -- they'd be undercutting their own sales of cosmetic items by honoring sales of items by their competitors. Second, actually porting assets between games is nontrivial; even if two games are built on the same engine, there are significant barriers to transferring assets between them (like differences in physical scale, art style, or game mechanics).