skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Part of the point of digital assets are that they can be copied

As someone still fairly new to this industry still enamored with all the naïve big-picture stuff I was under the impression that the ease and immediacy of copying digital information was nearly the ENTIRE point. Or at least the biggest characteristic that distinguishes digital information technology from other human innovations historically. That and hash tables maybe.

As a former art school hippie I regularly start to get creeping FOMO regarding the NFT train, and feel like Im fighting the future or being stubborn.

Then I remember NFT / Crypto advocates are the ones fighting the future with this sad attempt to impose clunky energy consuming systems of false scarcity on digital systems that undermine that kind of old-world scarcity on a foundational level.

Again, I don't know what I'm talking about but Im enjoying learning more from these threads / posts.
+1000 for duolingo.

Back in April I saw that they offered Yiddish as a beta. It sounded like fun, so I tried it.

Duolingo is excellent for establishing a habit because it let's you set a daily goal and it gives you reminders and little bits of encouragement along the way. I am currently on day 207 of continuous study of around a half hour a day. That sounds pretty hobby like! I'm having so much fun that some days I have to cut down my time. Otherwise, the rest of my life might suffer..

To further show that it's become a hobby, I've branched out beyond duolingo. I bought a book that has dual English and Yiddish pages. I listen to podcasts in Yiddish (understanding almost nothing but it's slowly improving). I even wrote a poem in Yiddish!

It helps that this particular hobby is one that can be done from my laptop when I'm at home or even (as I did a couple hours ago) from my phone while sitting in a waiting room. If I needed a lot of equipment or a special place to do it (like a dojo), it would be harder to maintain, though with the right amount of passion it would still be possible.
The stolen art thing is a problem screaming for a technical solution.

Outside of that, 99% of the artist I know are super happy NFTs exist and they can make money out of them.
same. complex logical thinking is quite hard.
but feeling is great. listening high to classical sound sometimes opens the story, the memory or the feelings the creator wanted to transport. for example.

so, a day in remote-meetings can be quite nice high, a complex migration hardly..

€dit: could we pair our experiences with our "handed"-style? i'm strongly lefthanded.
i have a theory, with left handeds the possibility is higher to the "logical stuff does not work anymore" component than for righthandeds
Sorry - I edited my comment while you were posting this. Feel free to reply to my full comment, since I address the consequences of this line of reasoning there.
> 29% of our sample reported they had taken a drug test for a programming-related job

Wow, That seems so high. I don't know anyone in my circle of friends who was drug tested. Although, we are all on the west coast.
This should be self-evident and holds for any correlation of education and trust - people without means receive inferior education (indoctrination?) and tend to mistrust a system that does not value them (or actively harms them). So now let's do the same study but instead of measuring "intelligence", let's measure gullibility.

"If there is hope it lies in the proles" - George Orwell, 1984
Fair enough, but Grindr was on every agency blacklist I came across when I worked in adtech.
I can definitely see the use-case for things like Pokemon or Magic: The Gathering cards, the NFT being issued for each individual copy, and signed by the game company. This way, rare cards can remain rare, can be used to play a game, and ultimately, can be traded/sold just like physical cards. The paper trail leading back to the company will be recorded in the blockchain.
For the n+1 cart, it was always the smallest diff between n and any remaining carts.

Picking the first n, was more difficult. A strong hint was if the ROM name contained a variant of the word Japan. Otherwise, imagine you had 4 images, you could diff them 16 ways, but half of those ways are mirror images of each other ie. a diff of ROM 2->4 is the inverse of of a diff of ROM 4->2.

So ideally, the first ancestor would be the image with the most amount of the smallest children.
I can't even focus/code after 1 beer. I can't imagine what cannabis would do.
It mostly works for me in Firefox but the screen sharing experience is degraded and I pretty much have to use Chrome if I don't want someome to tell me "your screen isn't updating anymore."

It is definitely my preferred meeting app though. You just give someone a link; no install, no fuss, no muss.
> if the page file is disabled

Ouch. Never run Windows without the swap. It can be as small as the system allows (AFAIR 16Mb for Win7), but it should be enabled.

While this is the obvious footgun the problem is nobody ever tests with the swap disabled.

I've seen very weird behaviour without the swap, the most funny one was when some 3D game (sadly don't remember the name) internal timer went completely nuts without the swap and game was working just fine with the swap enabled.
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I'll buy that, if you mean 'more than 50% of the information, that can be gleaned when watching at 1x speed, can be gleaned when watching at 2x speed'.
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I've been thinking a lot about this lately. I've been using todopy (which works on the todo.txt format/spec) to manage tasks, and hledger to manage finances, and after having tried a myriad of solutions for organizing life, it seems it's these simple CLI tools with text-based formats that work best for me.

This product kind of feels like that, but without the main upsides (easy extensibility, you own your data, it's all accessible locally so latency is non-existent). I don't really see much benefit vs having local files backed up by GKeep and/or a VCS instead.

Still might steal some of the ideas, though. In particular, tracking events is useful ("when was it that I last had to order gas again? Do I need it soon?")
Hmmm... I see you're coming in from another angle but its also related to noise.

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I guess I was relating analog-noise to quantization noise of the FP16 format. For example, the number 4098 cannot be represented in FP16, you round that number to 4096 or 4100.

This is seen as "noise" perhaps in your perspective, but I'm seeing it as "loss of precision". From my perspective, neural nets are clearly able to work even with low-precision (ie: numbers like 4098 being rounded to 4096 in every step of every calculation). "Noise" in my model is this "number shifting" effect.

So from my side of things: neural nets seem to work with 8-bits or 16-bits of precision. And analog circuits are able to achieve that level of precision in practice (though its called 2-digits of precision or 5-digits of precision in the analog-world, maybe SNR ratio of 24db or 48db).

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But from your perspective, noisy inputs are themselves a strategy that people use to train neural nets with. Literally adding noise and then compensating with a larger model / more training.

Maybe its all noise... one artificial, the other caused by physical limitation (quantization noise is... noise after all), but it was a bit confusing for a post or two because I think we were coming in from different perspectives for a second.
Yeah but do salaries represent that? The biggest mistake I've made in the past 10 years of my life is choosing to focus on low level instead of just chasing the latest and greatest react/rails stuff. Fresh grads with experience only in Java at $FANCY_CO outearn me by a factor of 2.5 because they get on the web/app track.

Meanwhile over in embedded I'm writing highly performant const-correct modern asio C++ applications requiring custom kernel drivers.

Parent comment had the nerve to imply that I'm not even a true programmer. None of this shit makes any sense anymore, I can't wait for the bubble to pop.
I own the only unique real copy of c6922832e65b60ab8517d7c1c5fd5911. Its scarcity, too, is real.
Neat. Is this the collection? https://opensea.io/collection/nftreplicas
>what is the value in creating scarcity beyond just trying to make money?

Gameplay balancing.

We've crossed a very blurred line of gaming, role play, and real life. Whos to say which is which anymore.

I dont think profitability and production of gaming are mutually exclusive. Why cant game creators also make money for their work?
> I am finally nearing the end of a multi-year process of grinding away at drawing a comic book that came from the simple idea of "what if I told a story from two sides, with the characters changing designs to ones that scream 'Good Guys' or 'Bad Guys' depending on which side we are currently following".

That sounds cool.

Game of Thrones was like that. You just got a good hate on, for one of the characters, and they went and spoiled it, by telling their story.

The Boltons were bad news, though. Even the author hated them.
So is eyewitness testimony. That's why we have trials. The problem in the case of a crime committed like that is not that the technology is used, it's when people assume the technology is infallible, when there's plenty of evidence to the contrary (just like there's not plenty of evidence that eyewitness testimony is not infallible and often subject to a bunch of problems).

If facial recognition is perceived as low accuracy, but can yield some leads for investigators that can be independently corroborated, that seems like a fine use of the technology. If we're worried about the public assuming it's more accurate than it is if used as evidence in trials, we can either pass some laws about its use as trial evidence (which is not the same as using it as a lead), or train defense attorneys and the public (often done through TV...) that it's use in the role of proving guilt is extremely limited because of it's false positive rate.
What are some examples where NFTs have solved or are solving fundamental problems?
For me it really depends on how much I smoke and what the task is. If I’m trying to learn new tech and implement something new I’m weed dosnt help. If it’s coding in a language I already know beyond the absolute basics and I smoke a reasonable amount it actual makes me feel more engaged. Of course 10 bong rips or something wouldn’t be good, but a certain amount is great once in a while. As for alchahol after about 1 beer I lose all motivation to do anything and think clearly.
Closed source software can still be copied, even if you charge money for it. I have never created any software that utilized any form of DRM. Hell, most of the code I write is public domain, making it even more free than most open source software.

Besides, I'm not saying we shouldn't compensate creators. Unfortunately even though the digital world is post scarcity the one where our bodies reside is not and creators need to eat. However, I don't believe that shoving scarcity into a post-scarcity space is the way to go about that.
Deep knowledge is overstating it I think. Knowing a few data structures and their Big O notation for various operations goes a long way. You don’t need to exactly know how it is implemented under the covers. SQL is similar that once you grasp what data structure it uses to store your data, you can intuit what should be fast and what is slow.
Org mode can display images inline. They’re obviously not stored on the file itself, but I keep everything under a single directory hierarchy and it works ok for my use cases.

I migrated to org from Things some 12 years ago and since I started bare-bones (just todo entries, no special config) and grew as my needs arose, I never felt I had to invest lots of time in my setup.

Agree that some people overdo things and the tools become projects on their own though.
So far, Bitwarden has an Android app (two of those didn't), has been security audited (I didn't see anything for those other ones), and the biggest thing is Bitwarden has a much better pricing structure around non business users. It has a free tier and plans for families/non business users, as well as business use. Those others had nothing comparable that I could see except for a limited free tier.

Feature wise (ignoring the mobile apps), some of those seem to have some comparable features like emergency access, sharing, folders, etc, but locked behind a pricing structure that makes them less useful.

So from a look at those other ones, Bitwarden is the superior product for non business/security conscious family use at least. And for business use I don't see how those other ones are better anyway.
RubyConf 2021 – Keynote: Beyond Ruby3.0 by Yukihiro Matsumoto
What ratio of bogus companies to total listed do you estimate?
Yes same for me. It makes it easy to push through tedious tasks with a little enjoyment.
Additionally, I have seen quite a lot of actual toddler art, and even when that fact is initially hidden, I have yet to be impressed by any of it.
Not sure, but i run a few custom matrix bots on some rooms hosted on conduit,

They work fine, although I’m not sure if discord bridge works
Yay! Good to read validation after trying so many: wikis, org, TheBrain, Freemind, etc. It's like a return to the old .LOG in notepad trick.

After a score, I'm came to the same conclusion as the article; plain text just works. I log in vim using ISO 8601 date stamped records in the log format of (priority - datetime stamp - keywords/tag - content) inspired by Randy Pausch https://youtu.be/oTugjssqOT0 others noticed too: https://github.com/nrr-deprecated/todo

Sorting by date, priority or keyword keeps me on track and helps for quarterly summaries.

A simple bash loop runs annually to give me a fresh 365 dashboard of days but inserts are a datetime stamp command - keywords autocompleted - then actual typing the meat of the task/content

Because all text is in a single file, vim autocomplete saves typing as I use CamelCase for keywords; vim dict helps too.

Caveat: For enjoyment, I still use fountain pens and paper for a running top 3 priority and scribbling offline. Backup interop is via TiddlyWiki for reference archive and sync with a plain text Zettelkasten (heavy on vim gf, Rg, FZF and jq for TiddlyWiki json export)

Plain text is built to last.
They fixed a font size bug that made it inconsistent between computers, but did they change the user interface for font styling? It's the second that makes it annoying - I never got far enough to notice the bug.
Yes, but this discussion about "ownership" goes back literally thousands of years. And 100+ years in the modern age of copyright and information reproduction. There is a whole lot of established precedent and knowledge and thought on the subject. The NFT world acts mostly ignorant of it, perhaps because they're much more interested in scamming people out of money than contributing to our culture of information.
> Interesting there is so little research into the actual effects on humans. You get better data from Leafly reviews!

I imagine that this will always be true, because what you want to know about the effects is inherently qualitative and subjective, and that kind of research gets relatively little attention and funding.
Looking forward to further development of this so I can display sheet music PDFs. Sheet music specific e-ink tablets are a bit expensive.
I use clicky.com, it's ultra lite weight and has tons of features.
I cite ENS (ens.domains) as one of the bedrock technologies in this next cycle. Identity is the biggest flaw in our current social media / search engine / information discovery paradigm.

In the next two weeks, I'll have my PGP keys discoverable, on blockchain, two clicks away from anyone with (unrestricted) internet access. Just find me at joshjames.eth and boom, you can virtually guarantee a secure communication channel with me. Outside of a physical abduction or hardware compromise of my private keys, this pattern no longer requires a middleman to host my pubkey.
Absolutely, but I understand ymmv. I live in California where it's legal, so I decided to try it again. What I found is related to another article on HN right now: Step Away from Stack Overflow (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29659938)

Sometimes I get lost in the programming equivalent of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. After some time with no progress in figuring out what sticks, it’s time to step away from that approach.

I don't smoke daily. I use it as a tool because I found it helps me when I am semi-manic and just trying to get something to work. I step away from the keyboard and spend time thinking about how to architect my code so that it is easier to write and understand. I'm sure other people do that without smoking, but it's been a big help for me to do that more often.
NFTs are essentially a technical fraud that combines the failures of DRM technologies with the failures of perceptual hash functions. Whereas blockchains provide a novel solution to the double-spending problem through distributed consensus to enforce scarcity and have real applications based on proven technical merit, NFTs tokenize digital media which can be copied through analog means as with any other piece of digital media hence zero scarcity and zero need for tokenization, and the uniqueness of an NFT is impossible due to the limitations of hash functions hence scarcity also fails in this respect. NFTs aren't actually technically possible. Imagine going to an art gallery and seeing hundreds of Mona Lisa prints next to each other that look the same and taking pictures of them with your DSLR good enough that you don't need to buy a print and some guy says they are all unique and special because they are one pixel different, that's NFTs.
Do you consider getting a high off of caffeine to be unethical? Assuming some people find weed to be a performance enhancer, why is that different?
Interesting NFTs are those that: prove identity, serve as a key to a private community, yield tokens with utility, prove ownership of an asset that generates royalties, augment a gaming experience, etc.

If those things want to be taken seriously they need to divorce themselves from the term "NFT", demonstrate that blockchain is necessary, and use the best tech (e.g. privacy-preserving zero-knowledge protocols for anything involving identity/authentication/authorization).
An artist can create as many instances of an NFT as they want, even after selling "number 1". It's not malicious, it's a feature of the platform.
It's already done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8
If IoT devices means an old linux distro running on the wild, thats an always go for distributed network of devices ready to act.
I agree many presenters on YouTube speak way too slowly and need to be sped up to 1.5x. At 2x I find I miss some of the demonstration though (“white boarding”) and I have to “rewind”.
Same here, native Evernote has worked fine for me, but the Electron version adds too much latency, and the writing/reading of notes feels different in a worse way.

Apple Notes will let you import directly from an Evernote export, but it is missing some features (no note links, no quick search/jump, hard to navigate nested folders as notes are hidden by default, no export).
Ask HN: Why is homebrew so often derided?
I've been using it (lightly) and it seems to work well for my purposes.

Why the ill will?
Except that these are businesses giving away a free product which has been immensely useful. Starting out I wouldn't have paid for almost any of the services that I use on a daily basis.
You are not missing something. There is no Web3 other than a brief mania propped up by a bunch of black market cryptocurrency interest.
That's My Ape - A blockchain-free chain of custody tool
C++ Translation Units considered harmful? (2018)
It's also interesting to see 'Postquantum crypto'.
I volunteer for the recursive fork!
> "... 35% of
our sample has tried programming while using cannabis, and 18%
currently do so at least once a month..."

Selection bias.
I think it's fair to say that best practices are specific to goals. Low latency, overall load time, ease of scale... These will all have different (though perhaps overlapping) best practices. The trick, as with most projects, is balancing goals against methods.
I use a macro that enters year-month-day hour:minute when I type date.

date:
- done this and that
some code snippet
- did that other thing
- step 1
#——————- (up from here is done, below it is todo)

- call x and y :tag:tag2:tag3:
- research x
I've used all three, and the amount of searching from least to most goes Krita -> PS -> GIMP for me.

PS was the first I used, but I still had to search things for the entire time I used it. GIMP I just start by looking up how to do something, and Krita I just do it.
Also ADHD here. I find smoking a little helps significantly with turning off the distractions of Slack, email, reading interesting docs that cross my path. It's much easier to sit down, crank out a coding task, or jump into a deep debugging session.

Not something I do often (or even occasionally), but I definitely don't think it's nonsense.
I’ve tried weed, got addicted to it in college and have seen many people do the same. It made me lazy, completely unmotivated and unproductive. All I did was watch Anime and eat unhealthy foods.

Contrary to the notion that you can think about great ideas and brainstorming - it’s amazing when you’re high. Write down those ideas and think about them when sober - I quickly realized how foolish they were.

Concentration and programming is so far from my experience (and others that I know), I absolutely cannot believe this study. Couldn’t even stay motivated to go take a shower. There has to be a study that matches my experience. What’s going on?
NFTs are not about giving, they're about having.
I've found that you can cut your time in half by using 2 computers and watching both videos @ 200x, simultaneously.
You bring up a good point: solving the business problem is more important than the technical implementation.

Software and SaaS is a very high margin business compared to storing widgets in a warehouse and selling them in a retail store. So, you're right: who cares about efficiency?

(Well, it is important, but it isn't always the top priority.)
"written in Go" is almost as popular.
That's true. It's also true that AWS's IAM system is pretty complex and not incredibly well designed. AWS internally makes mistakes with it with some regularity.
You can unsubscribe right after claiming it, by going into your GOG profile settings.
OpenSSH is a project which ships (among other things) two popular binaries, ssh and sshd.

TinySSH is a project which ships an alternative to sshd which binary is named tinysshd.

I'm just pointing out that project names need not reflect the names of the binaries shipped by that project. Heck, the project named Apache made its name by shipping a binary called httpd.
Have you checked your local government services? Some have emergency alerts via sms. Not sure if earthquake maybe be included.
Totally different substance.
I'd argue that anyone wanting a fully open source anything isn't an average person.

If you want something finished and mostly open, a reMarkable tablet already works. If you want something with android and are okay with GPL being completely ignored, let me point you towards Boox.
A valid question. By keeping to raise that import tax until they accept doing a trustable carbon tax instead. Next up: how could you identify a trustable carbon tax? How could you do the tariff thing without all hell breaking loose both on the level of inter-government relations and in terms of plain old grassroots contraband snuggling?