skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Toxic masculinity seems straightforwardly like misandry to me. Someone saying "you're not a real woman unless you're skinny" would obviously be considered misogynistic, so someone saying "you're not a real man unless you're muscular" seems straightforwardly misandristic.
Skio raises $3.7M to help brands on Shopify sell subscriptions
"Made in USA" is often code for "made with prison labor". Louisiana is said to make a point of incarcerating particularly black citizens on made-up charges and excessive sentencing to maintain a ready prison labor pool.

So, it is probably important to verify that such products are not from prison labor.

China has is rightly criticized for unjustified incarceration, particularly in Xinjiang, but the US incarcerates many more on largely similar pretexts, which amounts to a much larger fraction of its population. Reducing US incarceration rate is a moral imperative.
I'm sorry, but I don't. I don't have any information about the specifics and I don't know anything about the startup or the domain. All I know is that YC would only have invested in such a startup if they believed it could truly be of benefit to people.
They're limited in the sense that pogs were limited.

When Kellog's is making NFTs, it devalues the entire platform.

Trading cards aren't a fitting analogy, because only a few companies were/are in that business, and they each ran specific product lines. They're more similar to old lego sets in that sense.

NFTs are pogs.
It's two days before Christmas! Why couldn't I have seen that link three weeks ago?
Running with the page file disabled is bad. The system runs out of address space, hence the crashes.
Also: some services deliberately hide behind a login prompt, like Quora. It's impossible to read quora answers without logging in. Same with other walled gardens like LinkedIN and Facebook.
OK, we can go home now...
Apache's new security update for HTTP Server fixes two flaws
We've been hearing this tune from cryptoenthusiasts for over a decade now, maybe you should revisit your comments from a few years ago?

If you dig in my own comments on this website you can probably find discussions from 2017 or even earlier where I ask when people think that cryptocurrency tech is going to finally deliver something useful. It's always "one or two years from now". It's always "we're early". Remember ICOs? Remember how it was going to revolutionize IoT? Remember dapps? Remember lightning? It's been around the corner for years now.

Can you think of a single other technical innovation that required so much faith and patience before it delivered? Maybe self-driving cars, but even then I'd argue that it made immense progress compared to blockchain technology.

In the end you can hype it as much as you want, it's still fundamentally just a crappy, slow, extremely inefficient append-only database that's only relevant because it's super good at supporting pyramid schemes.
> but Meet works fine in a browser with no fuss.

Not on Firefox for me, lately. The last few times someone invited me to one, I had to switch to Chrome.
Right. You just ask the artist. And if you don't care who the artist is, then you can always buy the replica.
Okay but is that still true if you use batch normalization and does it beat SOTA
Why would I ever import from a supplier whose only positive is price, if I have to go to extra effort and expense - making them no longer competitive in any respect?
1. There isn’t a need and it can’t be demonstrated via handwaving.

2. Investing in the imaginary shouldn’t be peddled by charlatans.

3. Comparing to Airbnb is inaccurate and intentionally misleading.

4. Sentences 1-2 are circular.
I agree NFTs are dumb, but some artists are getting paid huge amounts of real money for selling NFTs. If the artists can find suckers willing to pay then good for them.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/11/22325054/beeple-christies...
Log4j makes waves in the US financial industry
The blockers aren't but the damage they can cause can be very permanent.
This isn't my experience at all and I've lived in the Bay Area nearly half my life. I have a vague idea of what a mag 4 earthquake feels like, and that's about it.
rclone can do it on the fly (no need to store the encrypted version on upload or download) which simplifies the process
>The background of the artist and the piece's history is what gives it value

That, and the fact that there is only one, it's not digital, and it can be authenticated (and also the artist is dead, so it is guaranteed there won't be any more).

The "value" of an NFT is that there is only one unique occurrance of it in a pile of bits called a blockchain. It is very hard to hang it on a wall.

Web3: not satisfied with the fundamental principle of digital abundance, we invented digital scarcity.
Show HN: AroundAworld: a weird, but fun experiment I brought back for Christmas
AroundAWorld was the first app I built using Phoenix LiveView in the middle of last year. It had its heyday during the second lockdown wave of 2020, then it became largely fogotten. I'd brought it down for a few months, but thought it'd be a cool idea to grab a new domain and put it back online at least during Christmas.

Happy holidays!
This is a property that NFTs can never have, so claiming that NFTs are equivalent to physical collectibles is certainly false.

If you are saying that something requires a ledger entry to have value, then you are simply proving that it has no intrinsic value.
I like the way you framed this, its a tradeoff mainly. You can build something fault-tolerant and highly-available, even during AWS outage events, but you have to give up a ton of the product offerings in their suite.

I've managed to stick to EC2/ELB and S3 as passive systems for the vast majority of what we build at my org (~90% of our stack). And for the most part, AWS failures are hitless for us as a result.
It'd be great if we could have privatized police forces, that the community chooses to pay for. It'd end all victimless crime enforcement/laws because no one would voluntarily pay for that.
Exactly. This is something we'll be reviewing in our monthly security review at work, discussing what the impact was, why we were not impacted, and any action items we want to take.

Declaring an incident doesn't mean sending out a breach report or anything particularly dramatic, though I can see how as an outsider it may sound that way.
Four Bugs in Microsoft Teams Left Platform Vulnerable Since March
+1. I've also wondered about this for a long time, especially as someone who wears a lot of fleece products. This blog post (https://alexdanco.com/2019/12/17/ten-predictions-for-the-202...) describes it well. Quoting:

> At some point in the 2020s ... we're going to learn that some sort of chemical or microscopic thing that’s inside everything, all around us, actually has some horrible health effect we never knew about before. My pick for what it’ll be? Microplastics – particularly the microplastics inside clothing, like athleisure.

> I have no idea what kind of health hazard it’ll pose, but it’ll be one that takes a long time to develop, and where childhood exposure gets linked in a study to some awful condition that happens to you later. It could be that all these cheap, fast-fashion clothes are secretly off-gassing some volatile organic compound that we breathe in and gives us cancer later, or maybe it could be something like physical micro plastic particles getting on our hands, and then into our stomach when we eat, and then it gets linked to some digestive disorder or intolerance, or maybe it kills our gut bacteria, or I dunno.

Couldn't agree more. (The rest of his 10 Predictions for 2020 missed the most important one...)
I have pretty mixed feelings about NFTs in general.

But I am intrigued by the use case of allowing a large number of individuals to patron a given artist (and give them recurring income on subsequent resale of their work). All else being equal, I would prefer to live in a society where artists and other makers have time to follow their passion and create instead of spending their time on some job just to pay the bills.

So to the extent that NFTs can enable that, I'm tentatively onboard.
Would be nice to have a list of VCs that are not all about web3
Telegram Abused to Steal Crypto-Wallet Credentials
You're buying an entry on the blockchain and the scarcity of that is real.

Except that unlike the original object, or even a replica, "an entry on the blockchain" has -- no intrinsic value whatsoever. It's basically like you're buying the rights to a "Like" on that painting, or trading card, or whatever. Nothing more.

My hunch though is that 90 percent of the people buying these things are utterly oblivious to this distinction. And that, plus "it's new" and "it's value is just going to keep skyrocketing" is essentially what is driving the NFT "market" as such.
I think this is where a lot of us don't see the similarity between artificial and real scarcity. The real scarcity of physical collectibles is not only due to their limited numbers, but also, I believe, due to the fact that they are physical objects that can degrade in quality or be lost entirely. That's a world of difference from digital bits that are just not allowed to be copied.
I use the Mac Os notes app because the bullet points / hierarchical lists have the best ux I've seen yet.
So you're telling me NFTs are exactly like an industry that exists almost entirely to service the ultra-wealthy looking for new ways to hide their assets and/or show off with conspicuous consumption? That's pretty much all I need to hear to decide it's a bunch of BS. Find a use for NFTs that affects those of us without massive disposable income, and maybe I'll be impressed.
But anyone can create infinite ledgers and create their own entries on those ledgers all day. Snowflakes are unique too, but that doesn't mean any of them are particularly valuable.
A Michael Jordan rookie card is rare because only a certain number of them were physically made. An NFT is rare because we decide it is rare (the physical constraints are not the same as the rookie card), I don't know if they are exactly the same. The minted copy here is exactly the same, pixel by pixel, to the original.

I also find that when we start applying analogies to something as an argument we are detaching from the reality of what we have. It is meant to simplify, and appeal to people who are not familiar with the topic at hand. No matter how wrong the analogy is (or right) we are inherently shifting the conversations to something different. I know this analogy is trying to say an NFT is scarce, but it IS quite different than a Michael Jordan rookie card in its execution, management, and a lot of the things that make a Michael Jordan rookie card worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
When the merger first happened, OPENSTEP 4.0 was out and ran on SPARC, x86 and 68k. There was some effort internally at NeXT to get it running on a PowerPC machine, but not a Mac. NeXT's hardware division was spun off as FirePower Systems, Inc and Canon had a large stake in it (they had a large stake in NeXT too).

First thing Apple did was keep selling OPENSTEP, and let 4.1 and 4.2 come out later in 96/97. I think they even gave copies to developers along with WebObjects and called this "prelude to Rhapsody"

Then Rhapsody came along in various releases. DR1, DR2. This was basically OPENSTEP 5.0 -- OPENSTEP with a semi-Mac UI slapped on it.

Eventually this was released as Mac OS X Server 1.0 (version 1.23 was the last released) and then the Mac OS X Public Beta came along a little while later.
I would expect in the short term used GA aircraft prices will go up. That's certainly what's been happening. The Cessna 150 I began private pilot training in has sold twice since I've met it. Gaining almost $10,000 in the process.

Long term I hope we'll see more production of GA aircraft and used prices will go down.
I will NOT reward a company for continuing to track me after I pay them.

You are missing the issue here. I will pay a company if they do not engage in these shady behaviors. But they nearly all do, so I refuse to give them money to remove one thing (the ads) but continue to track.
iOS probably lets you uninstall the California contact tracing app, that should stop the alerts
> I view NFTs as one of the dumbest things to come out of the crypto space. I see the use cases, but frankly I don’t think it’s innovative nor does it solve something in a really unique way.

I think the original comment isn’t arguing that “this isn’t a legitimate human need.” I think it’s arguing that neither the tech is innovative nor the offered solution is unique.
NFTs aren't trading cards.

They're receipts showing that you "own" the card on display in the public square. And more than one receipt can be minted for that card. The most you can hope for is the earliest timestamp on the receipt.
I can’t see how you can do anything other than micro-dose cannabis (small hits or low dosage edibles). You just get too high to be productive.

But I’m very interested to see if low dosages help.
I agree, toxic misandry or internalized misandry would be much clearer.
Yep, the valsalva maneuver against a closed glottis works great for this.
There's no reason to believe that to be the case.
I have completely ditched note taking systems in favor of a flat structure and strong search features. I just make a bunch of .md files and edit them in vscode.
Looks like SaaS to me. Looks like the funnel is superior and small too. We should just be discussing the revenue multiple, since the same standard should apply. What year does that start?
> Real numbers are scarce. There’s only one of each.

This gives me ideas! Who wants to join me in this new fad?
it's none of these things because all you buy is an hyperlink. If the art itself was hosted on the blockchain directly (they are not, it would be too expensive), then it would be interesting.
This site is irony for the crypto world. This is not really true replication, is false marketing.
LISP in your notes? That's cool. For my note taking I use the great tiddlywiki. A lot of features seem to overlap with the tiddlywiki. What seems nicer is the syntax, which is cool. As a tiddlywiki user, what's the advantage of this note taking app over that one?

(https://tiddlywiki.com/)
> I'm supposed to pay $400 USD for a development kit that comes with no tooling or support

No, you're not. In fact, if you're not a developer who specifically signed up in advance to get your hands on the hardware in order to start building the stuff that will make it usable, you can't buy it right now at all.
+1 for Libreddit. Reddit’s ui is terrible but libreddit provides a great alternative. Only trouble I’ve had with it is some videos missing sound on iOS.
not top of the line? that's still serious gear! Sure you can spend more but that's a fairly professional kit.
Yes, that is speculation. But there is also great art being sold that you may feel good about owning.
will minting a replica give me gated access to discord?

or showcase my collection on gallery.so?

also some of the popular NFTs these days are cc0 licensed, so they do in fact encourage copies! I hope the trend continues.

cc0 nft - nouns.wtf
In many cases there is some opportunity to validate information before it goes out. In others ... not so much.

Even a missile-launch alarm would typically have some opportunity to be assessed based on alert values (e.g., increasing or decreasing hostilities), and perhaps multiple sensor systems (boost-phase IR tracks plus radar signatures, known planned non-military launches, etc.).

In the case of earthquakes, their very unpredictability, the brief period of time avialable in which to make an alert (often only a few seconds, in cases a few minutes) means that manual cross-validation is all but impossible. Still, checks across multiple seismic detectors, preferably isolated from one another to the maximum extent possible, would be one potential check, though you'd still need to have multiple sensors relatively close together, as the time of propagation of seismic waves is both what provides the early alert and causes the damage. (Relative speeds of P (primary) and S (secondary) waves helps --- the p waves tend to cause less damage, but provide an earlier alert, the s waves arrive more slowly but do most of the damage.

At the surface, speed differential is about 3 km/s, meaning there's roughly 1 second of arrival differential for each 3km the observer is from the epicentre. (Subsurface waves travel faster.) Each 3km of separation of seismic stations costs 1 second of advanced warning time, plus whatever system logic and response times exist.

But given that major earthquakes can occur suddenly and without warning or pre-shocks, you really do pretty much have to be ready for anything at any time. And alerting systems need to take this into account. One option might be to have the logic on the phone itself --- it would trigger an alert, but only if some number of independent alarms were detected. One would be unlikely to trigger a false alarm, but two or three near-simultaneous alerts would indicate a major quake.

Penalising false alarms is probably the wrong approach. An engineering philosophy, of determining paths to either false positives or false negatives (each of which have high impact), and eliminating those.
> I agree to receive marketing communication from GOG sp. z o.o. on my email address connected to my GOG account, to get I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. See our Privacy policy.

Well, that's a bit disappointing.
> Ed25519 keys are not supported in Azure.

And why not? OpenSSH has supported them for almost 8 years.
Well it depends, if the test is to keep attacking those undesirable antivaxxers... yes, the test is accurate.

Now if your test is to select which individuals from a minority group can go to college, of course not! How dare you?
I'm a hobbyist photographer. I have been publishing my photographs to unsplash for the last 4 years. I have over 100 photos on Adobe contributor. The former has delivered me ZERO inbound or monetary value, just over 3 million downloads of my work. The latter has given me returns I could buy coffee with.

NFTs open a new World of opportunity for me. Not only can other humans easily collect, and compensate me for my work, I also have a whole new stream for consuming royalties. Now think further about the ecosystem potential and all the third parties that consume my unsplash content for free today, NFTs can change that.
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It's a shame the acronym NFT has become synonymous with digital images. As a concept it's a huge idea with so much potential. The issue is people now hear NFT, and their mind shuts down thinking it's some stupid monkey picture thing.

Everything you can do with an NFT, you COULD do with a centralized database. The problem is then you have to trust that database. You have to trust the person running it, you have to trust they will still be in business, you have to trust the person running it will allow other people to connect to it (or get stuck in their walled garden).

We're pretty far into this Web 2.0 experiment with centralized services. The experiment is over, the results are in. We can't trust them.

Does decentralization solve all problems? No absolutely not. Does it have a whole new set of problems? yes, but hopefully we can work through most of them. To me, the trade off of a more open ecosystem is worth it. If email was created in Web 2.0 it probably would have been stored in a database, and there would be little accessibility outside whoever created it. It would look like whatsapp.

What NFT's give us, is the ability to own a unique digital assets in an open system and not have to rely on ad driven business models. It's a digital asset which can be ANYTHING.
I’m not sure what the issue is - Google never says if you pay you won’t be tracked, they say you won’t see ads.

The question is, will you indulge in YouTube anyway and deprive them from ad revenue n or will you just not use YouTube?
Ask HN: Any FOSS Android apps allowing GPS path retrace?
Hi all,

I've been hiking in areas with many trail splits and low/missing signage recently and my phone & ham radio GPS has been handy. However the app I'm using doesn't seem to have a path-retracing feature, which would be really nice since lots of trails lead back, but only some are not "dramatic" trails.

I'm looking for a FOSS Android app solution if possible. Any recommendations appreciated.
Clearly people believe it's something more than what you're saying, for some reason. I have no problem with the concept of collectibles and collectors. But "collectibles, but on a blockchain" doesn't warrant the current levels of mania and "entrepreneurial" exploitation.
Need on the side of issuers obviously exists, they can make money. At the same time we see that most of the potential users, such as gamer community at large, are overwhelmingly against NFTs. So this need is clearly being manufactured, which can succeed or not, remains to be seen.
In many ways it feels like we are recreating DRM, which was something that we weren't happy with as consumers, but this time: "It's different because it's crypto and I can make money on it".
Yes, and I think a lot of people don't understand what they're buying and are just blinded by the hype. However, what gives say an NFT of one of Tyler Hobbs generative art paintings value is the fact that it was issued by Tyler Hobbs as part of his Fidenza collection. A random person uploading the same painting wouldn't be worth much if anything, unless the person buying it was tricked into thinking it was part of the original collection.
Well it's not really the type of question to be answer via a referendum. Maybe it's fashionable to consider fashion art? Haha.
It’s not that difficult. Artists, original creators will write down their .eth or wallet address on their profile. Or just compare the timestamps of the creation of the smart contracts and the tokens.
> if you think about something like trading cards or any other "limited" collectibles that were mass produced

You mean like Beanie Babies? "limited" collectible physical objects that went up and up in value.

Never heard of them? Yeah, that's because they stopped going up in value. Then stopped having value at all. It was about 20 years ago, who remembers that?
Sure, but it’s effectively random which way the model learns the parameter impact and how values are used by subsequent layers. I’m assuming layers in the NN. Adding noise with things like dropout encourages the model to ‘grow’ redundancy.
some are. some people care about completely onchain art.

minting a completely image onchain is also not too expensive and can also be passed on to the community, as most relevant NFT collections are minted by the community and not the artist. people stand up their own websites for this, the people minting their own artwork directly on the marketplaces are their own segment and that has remained a race to the bottom with starving artists crowding it.