skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it does not. Transactions also do not contain IP addresses.

Some chain explorer will track 'first seen IP', eg: the first IP that relayed the transaction, but this does not mean the sender. Same deal with blocks -- you can see the IP sent your peer the block, but not the IP that created it, which may or may not be the same. With Dandelion routing, you can mask the sender IP behind multiple other relaying nodes. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0156
A very worthy and researched entry for the hall of fame [1]

[1] https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/
It seems that you are approaching Sturgeon's law there.
Wait a minute....are you implying that I don't need Azure and FB level infrastructure for my local recipe application?

/s
I was an avid Flickr user before Yahoo seemed to degrade the quality. Specifically for me, many of the groups I was in all of a sudden allowed illustrations as valid photographs. These were NOT photographs....so I moved on from Flickr.
Only on Android.
Postgres is 9.5× slower when running on the same machine as the one doing the query

I'm surprised by this, sure in-process is always going to be faster but still find it hard to believe that sqlite can be beat postgres in a single machine.
As best I can figure, America's land alone is worth somewhere between $22-44 trillion, and that's not including any of the buildings. (Manhattan's land alone is worth about $1.7 trillion according to my sources)

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-...

So one multibillion dollar thumb drive is even less when spread out over everything in LA!
Complete quote: "In Leander, students are currently allowed to check out my book from the school library, but it is banned from use in classroom libraries and the school book clubs." That's a pretty narrow ban.

Also "And just last week, Keller ISD, north of Fort Worth, restricted access to Out of Darkness in all high school libraries, citing the book’s “violence and difficult imagery.” Students in the district must ask a librarian for the book and show proof of parental consent. " - Meaning it's still available from the library, but parents have to give consent. Also well short of a ban.

Look - I'm very liberal in my beliefs about speech. If it was my school it would be treated like any other book. But we have to accept that different people in different places will have different values and educational priorities and standards. It is not completely unreasonable to put guards around the material we expose our kids to, especially in middle school. Would you feel differently if this book were about other topics you might feel are sensitive? What about guns, Nazism, Marxism, lizard-people, etc?
HN wasn't around when Web2.0 became a thing, but I don't remember Slashdot being filled with constant articles justifying Web2.0. I'm am just forgetting or were we as a community a lot less divided about it?
If we have to compare "Flickr" versus "DeviantArt"...

Flickr has the cooler name. It sounds almost old-school camera community, from a place doing mid-price range that you could afford. You know it does a job, posting your level of image in a photo.

DeviantArt has the longer name! Sounds almost naughty, like it is away from any form of school. It has been a long-time since being online there for sharing my amateur level image of art (often computer-game based/almost fan-fiction).

Both have communities.
If a customer has 1000 employees all using your app, it is.
The control loop reminds me of how you would create a game ie. get inputs, update states, based on the current state of the environment and inputs, render (write output).

No wonder John Carmack got into rockets!
Almost all web3 projects issue their own tokens. Before they allow you to buy any of these tokens, they reserve part of the supply to the dev team and VCs. The rest of the supply is issued to the community.

If the project/token is successful, the monetary value of the token rises, which funds the development teams and helps VCs to get a return.

So as always, big capital gets the early access, and us mortal do not.

Still, for a serious project it's not as bad as it sounds. It could still end up meaning the project is 75% community owned, rather than the 0% in a fully central organization.

You should apply scrutiny though to the "decentralized" claim. Most web3 projects aren't very decentralized at all.
One last point: Taleb's claim that Bitcoin is an earnings-free asset with no residual value would be true if the protocol was immutable and never amenable to change. But even most Bitcoin maximalists accept that at some point in the future there will be significant changes to the protocol (a fork). And we already see the most conservative changes (SegWit, Lightning Network) moving in the direction of opening up paths for future earnings.
Which Surface does she have? I've upgraded a few Surface tablets to 11 and have yet to experience the network drivers fail to work afterwards. Maybe it could also be that I waited a few months after it was out to upgrade and they already had a fix for that issue.
> "Experts" are just people with their own inherent biases.

Experts are usually correct. I have no idea why you would think otherwise. Now, experts in one area often misapply that authority to others where they are not expert, but within their domain they are most often right. And I have yet to see that not be the case.
>Unsplash grants you an irrevocable, nonexclusive, worldwide copyright license to download, copy, modify, distribute, perform, and use photos from Unsplash for free, including for commercial purposes, without permission from or attributing the photographer or Unsplash. This license does not include the right to compile photos from Unsplash to replicate a similar or competing service.

In other words Unsplash is a creative work donation site. I think this is a very different value proposition than flickr or smugmug.

Somewhere else on unsplash it says:

>Unsplash has quickly become the internet’s source of visuals—powering everything from Apple keynotes to high school Art projects. By contributing your images, you are pushing creativity forward every day.

So it's a website that companies like Apple don't have to pay license fees for images anymore?
That's definitely a bad life tip. The square itself is still call "Tiananmen". Even if the Chinese government censor any mention of the massacre, simply mentioning the name of the location won't trigger it because it's like saying "Capital Mall" -- it's a place people go. For that to remotely work, you would have to actually say "Tiananmen Square Massacre" but I doubt most people would be able to say it in Mandarin. (In Chinese it's called the June 4th incident so Tiananmen isn't even mentioned).

I'm now actually more curious about the meme itself. I wonder if the actual motive is to get non-Chinese people to be more curious about the event. If so, it would actually be a meme or a mental virus. Fascinating to say the least.
Interesting. For an extremely specific use case and with users who understand and accept the caveats of this approach I'm sure it would work well enough. The most confusing thing to me is that there is apparently an intersection of users who are ok with an outage and data loss with users who want a product which can

> execute queries and reliably receive results within microseconds

What is your product? Who are these users?
How Sber Built ruDALL-E
Thanks for taking the care of explaining!

> but his life won't be "destroyed" -- at least not by any reasonable standard. There are plenty of well-known billionaires who are perfectly happy.

1. The person has actively signaled that they do NOT want to be known by trying to stay anonymous. You're acting against their will. It is thus false to assume that they would like it. They have basically told you that they won't.

2. Destruction, in a minimal definition, means changing something so much it is completely different from what it was.

So to prove this is not destructive, name me the aspects of their personal life which will NOT be affected by suddenly the whole planet assuming they are rich.

There are probably none. Everything of their existing life will likely change.

So this is quite destructive isn't it?

And sure, their new life afterwards (if they don't get murdered) might be likeable as well.

But is it your right to replace the whole of someone's life with something different and expect them to like it?

It's a pretty intrusive attitude.

> To put this another way: is the search for knowledge immoral, if discovering that knowledge will inadvertently harm a person?

Yes in this case, because that knowledge is completely worthless for producing any real usable thing. So there is no benefit of the knowledge to value its harm against.

You can read how Bitcoin works in the source code, and deduce all necessary financial decisions from that. No need to know about the developer is needed. Bitcoin is trust-less so they have zero power on what it does. The code is its law.

So overall, what people are seeking is not knowledge but entertainment.

And it is super cruel to hurt someone for entertainment.
If you don't see the problem being solved, it's you.
Just use https://github.com/libimobiledevice/idevicerestore on a Linux or Windows machine.

Yes, if you don't have internet access you have a problem, but I'm personally happy enough with the benefits of this security model that I'm willing to accept the tradeoff.
By all means demand proof that the meritocracy is really an arbitrary aristocracy and a party to which you are not invited. That'll go really well I'm sure...
Bullshit Jobs aka jobs that can be automated.
One of my favorites: https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-presidential-debates/...

"Trump said Clinton "acid washed" her private email server. She didn't. She used an app called Bleachbit, not a corrosive chemical."
I'm pretty sure you do need FB and Azure level infra for you recipe app. I've read a couple blog posts, watched a video on YouTube and copied the code from Stack Overflow, so I'm pretty much an expert on this, so trust me.
Consider a few simple examples -

It is possible to buy crypto purely peer to peer e.g just 2 people posting on a forum. Yet, most people buy it on an exchange and pay the transaction fees.

It is possible to set up a wordpress server on your home PC or a cheap VPS, yet most people buy it off wordpress.com

It is possible to replicate an ETF with relatively low effort by just looking up their holdings every month and rebalancing, yet most people pay the ETF fees.

It is possible to make great coffee at home yet people go to coffee shops.

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The main idea IMO is just relying on people to be willing to buy into whatever new thing has a lot of marketing and hype behind it. They consistently do. Even if web3 is a truly open system, people will remain too apathetic to learn how that system works - they will just go to the most popular platform and pay the fee.

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The other angle IMO is that banks and tradfi in a lot of places really do suck hard. They don't need to innovate at all and rarely do. The only reason they don't have competition is piles of red tape, regulation, lobbying, corruption etc. All it takes is someone to make a half-decent website/app that makes things a little better (e.g Robinhood) and crypto is a way to do that while getting around all the old regulation.
The spooks know, anyway. They don't even need to ask anybody.
Oh, I didn't understand what that was getting at, beyond the generael idea of trolling the misbehaving requester, but which I thought cored devs don't do in their own bug tracker.

> Hi Bill, per our operational security procedure we can't talk about ieee_arithmetic, especially when we dont get paid.
They currently have disabled deletion of accounts. Everyone is getting a "A" error when trying to do so.
> Decentralized trust could be great, but I wonder how much time actually needs to be spent talking about it vs. actually building it...

This is the tell for me that most of the people promoting it are just trying to find buyers for their tokens: there's tons of marketing for things which either don't exist at all or offer a worse experience than the status quo, and it's very rare to find someone who clearly understands the problem and how we got there. For example, we started with a more decentralized web than we have now — any conversation about how to go in a different direction needs to be based on the economic factors which produced the current state.
> Microsoft’s shared vision of empowering a free and open web and championing an open industry alternative via a global advertising marketplace makes it a great fit for Xandr.

> Microsoft can accelerate the delivery of its digital advertising and retail media solutions, shaping tomorrow’s digital ad marketplace into one that respects consumer privacy preferences, understands publishers’ relationships with consumers and helps advertisers meet their goals.

How do they write crap like this with a straight face?
you're reaching, having one's hands tied is a common expression and tying people's hands preceded chattle slavery in north america, let alone lynching.
https://www.google.com/search?q=szabo+van+nuy

Lot's of szabo references in google in Van Nuys.
This is the "the US are the international police of the world" view. I agree what China does in the Spratleys is insanely bad, but its hardly close to the territorial waters of the USA unless you consider the former Philippines colony part of the USA still.

The right time to deal with this, was 30 years ago.
Also happened in the UK: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/23/22399721/uk-post-office-s...
The reverse DNS of the IP address mentioned is: h-68-164-57-219.lsan.ca.dynamic.globalcapacity.com according to SecurityTrails.

The article also gives the following information:

- HOST DETAILS: H-68-164-57-219.LSANCA54.DYNAMIC.COVAD.NET

- IP Address: 68.164.57.219

The IP address is within a /16 block owned by Megapath, a Los Angeles hosting provider.
How am I supposed to judge expert advice if I lack the technical knowledge? Blind trust?
You would be shocked at how much "military critical" software is built on OSS tools, libraries, and code bases. More shocking are the primary contractors charge top rates, contribute little to OSS, and try to hide the OSS usage from the end client.
Clearly people can and do make predictions and sometimes those predictions are quite right - and sometimes wrong. Even a really really good predictor like Nate Silver gets things wrong.

Future predictions are not fact checkable. You can argue likelihoods, present contrary evidence or whatnot but predictions are not facts, they are predictions.

A good predictor gives odds to every outcome. That is not something a fact checker can respond to well.
p50 on nuclear is 6 years, FYI
Good questions.

Let's say I create a piece of digital art and create an NFT out of it. The NFT somehow starts increasing in value. Then I copy my original digital art-asset and perhaps use a Photo-Shop filter to make it have a different hue. I turn that into another NFT. And I keep on doing this for all colors of the rainbow.

What prevents me from creating new NFTs with the same or slightly modified underlying digital asset?
$5 per month is sadly out of budget for many third world citizens because that $5 can be urgently used elsewhere to plug a need. I think somewhere in the range of $0.1-$0.5 might be doable though.
When I was maybe 8-9 I found a dual plug extension for the Christmas lights. It looked like two of those cheap green plugs with a little socket on the back, wired to each other. I think some people call it a widowmaker, and to this day I can't imagine why something so dangerous would have been manufactured. Anyway, I wanted to know what would happen if I plugged both plugs into the wall at the same time. I got paralyzed right there in front of mom, unable to even talk or shout, for at least 15 seconds, but it seemed like forever. It's weird because I knew to only touch insulator. I somehow fell off it and then unplugged it. I slunk away without her finding out, but my arm had a strange feeling for a while.
Using https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 for a pet project right now.
So far not a single issue with it, I never had to think about any CGO specifics.
It's interesting to see how quickly a discussion of US "evangelicals" turns into a discussion of US "white evangelicals." As if they are the only ones that count.
This is very simple: imagine you have decentralized Uber/Lyft so now all the logic occurs in a decentralized way.

Now, Uber^2 publishes a great mobile app, the mobile app is obviously centralized and they can decide to use or not and how to use the decentralized mechanism because they are the winners as the UX.

Isn't this obvious?
Marijuana's the flame, heroin's the fuse, LSD's the bomb.
In addition to hiding a ton of complexity, SQLite is actually faster than the filesystem in a surprising range of cases.
> The premise given is that some other technology will displace Bitcoin. This is not implausible, but it also applies to fiat!

This isn't quite the whole argument. The argument is that BTC provides no utility and never will. Given this premise, and the fact that it will eventually die, its value today must be zero.

Whether BTC fails to provide any value and will never do so is debatable, but it is certainly untrue of fiat.
This reply makes me feel like you’re lame.
If you look into what is involved in the work, as well as who does it, I doubt you'd lump all those together.
Defeatist mindset if you ask me
> The more pertinent question would be: What is the probability that at any point in the future nobody will run a node? I'd argue that probability is pretty low, therefore there will always be some value > 0 for the asset.

I thought Taleb argued that if there's any probability that nobody will run a node in the future -- no matter how low -- the present value ought to be zero.

I'm probably missing some nuance in this argument, though.
This last week I've been isolating due to contracting COVID at Christmas. Not fun... With my time recovering in bed, I finished off learning about WebSockets by building https://www.walloftext.art and uploaded the code to https://github.com/g105b/text with a description of how it works and what I've learnt.

The intention was to make the most minimal project that tested the bidirectional communication of WebSockets. The end product is a scrollable grid that allows users to type anonymous comments. Of course this is already getting abused, but that's part of the fun! Anyway, I'd appreciate your feedback on the code, and if there are any ideas of how to make the end product any better/more fun/less crude.
Revisiting this because I found a Twitter thread laying out what I was referring to [1]:

> A few years ago, when I was at the public defender's office, my very poor clients kept telling me the same story: they would be walking down the street and DC police would stop them, search them at gunpoint, tell them to open their wallets, and take all the cash they had. (2)

> The wildest part? The DC police would then send them a letter saying that, if they wanted to challenge the police taking of their cash, they would need to pay either $250 or 10% of the amount taken, whichever was more! (3)

> …

> A lot of the time, cops were taking $5 and $30 from extremely poor people who were struggling to meet the basic necessities of life for their children, like buying food and diapers and shoes. (7)

That is called mugging. And it may be the law of the land, but that doesn’t absolve these dirty cops of their misdeeds. Just like those managers, individual officers are making the choice to steal from people, incentivized and protected by their department.

[1] https://twitter.com/equalityalec/status/1412428330792542209?...
The NFT would contain "$doomrobo_public_key owns $k as of $date" signed with the minter's private key. When you decide to sell someone the NFT you append "$new_owner_public_key owns $k as of $date" to the NFT and sign it with your private key: this establishes a secure and verifiable chain of ownership.
Spending a lot of time on one thing does not inherently make you trustworthy. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
Nim forum uses SQLite as its db since 2012 and it fits perfectly the article’s use case. Code is available and it can be used to run a discourse inspired forum (although much less featured).

https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum
if you joined quick play, you were probably spectating while waiting for a match
When they tried to put SQLite into browsers I was excited but I had no project that needed it. It took years to finally get there, and wouldn’t you know it, they had just marked it as deprecated. KV stores are just not the same.
This is perfect! Any chance to be able to select the target language for translation? Portuguese - Brazil for example :)
>Taleb's big argument here is that Bitcoin will someday be obsolete and will have a value of 0. Since Bitcoin doesn't generate income or pay dividends, its present value is thus 0. That's a strange position for an options trader to take. Options, by their nature, expire, and have a value of 0 at some future time. Yet they are traded during their life as having value.

this remark is not true, only some possible paths of an option end-up at 0 otherwise nobody would take the other side of the bet... In the parlance of Options trading, there will be options that end-up at expiry in the money with a strictly positive payoff and some out of the money. In order to price an option expiring sometime in the future as of today, you have to take into account all the possible future payoffs (in and out of the money), and the probability distributions of such payoffs then propagate back to present time (check tree methods or cox ross rubinstein for an example of how this can be done). So if all possible future payoffs were 0 then the present value of the option would be 0 too. Same thing with bitcoin, if in the future you think with 100% probability that the price will be 0 (the absorbing barrier) then going backward from that future moment, you'll get the "rational" price at t-1 to be 0 and so on until today.
In fiction, Hiro Protagonist got in early and bought some prime real-estate in the metaverse. Many IRL did the same with Bitcoin and made a killing. If you think all the lucrative web2 properties have already been claimed, then it makes sense to create virgin territory in web3 and stake a claim.
the incentive is not necessarily needed, but it does make that avenue to grow wealth much more attractive. if none, the richer would seek out other ways to grow that money that aren't as effective at growing the tax base,
and in turn the economy. or they could just sit on it and grow their stack, passing it down as generational wealth, something akin to scrooge mcduck, swimming in his piles of money.

as far as removing government services, I can't say exactly which ones I would cut, there are most certainly several, but the federal government needs to take a huge step back and allocate the money and power of many of its departments back into the hands of the state and local governments. there is too much nuance that the federal government doesn't understand about local communities that ends up inflating costs by ridiculous amounts because things are generalized across the entire population, and not tailored for the specific needs of a region.
> If there is no locking what will create outsized returns for them?

Controlling consensus through proof of stake would give them an advantage.
NBC gave it a big "NOPE" in their fact check:

"The Claim
Trump says Clinton 'acid washed' her email server.

The Truth
Clinton's team used an app called BleachBit; she did not use a corrosive chemical."

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/785299709342654465

This was October 9, 2016. I have no love for the man, but like I said, we were never gonna get the media to be fair about him.
Gosh, she did not use a corrosive chemical! SHEESH!