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> NFTs are a scam and are retroactively obsoleted by digital signatures

I'm not one to ever defend NFTs, but this is not right. Suppose I bought an extremely trendy natural number k ∈ ℤ and I have a signature σ from its inventor that says "doomrobo owns k". Suppose in a year the trend has passed and I'd like to sell k. How do I transfer ownership to someone else? Clearly sending σ doesn't suffice, since σ is public. Do I need a new signature?

Ok different setup: σ is actually a signature from me and the inventor saying "the non-inventor pubkey that signed of this message is the owner of k". How do I transfer σ now? Do I send my signing secret key? Who makes sure I deleted my copy of the signing key?
Yes....fun...
This is the comment that matters in the other thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29717842

> Meanwhile, Meta gives >$1M in discretionary equity to top performers to prevent them from leaving.

A $1M grant pretty much any time in the past is vesting for significantly more now. Unless this article has a very different definition of "top engineer" Apple pays top staff much less than competitors.
The solution isn't to lobby or approve of the book's removal. It's to lobby and approve of parental consent measures.
The point is that only a conviction of terroism qualifies one as a convicted terrorist. Just like only a conviction of murder qualifies one as a convicted murderer. If someone killed someone else, was convicted of manslaughter, but you personally think it was murder, you might feel justified in calling them a murderer. But it would make no sense for you to call them a "convicted murderer."
Invariably, someone always asks this question. For most things I'd prefer a Pi Zero, less hassle, familiar environment. But consider:

- energy consumption

- latency

- learning experience

- the challenge of writing embedded software

- wanting certain peripherals

...
While these 3 things are quite old, the blending of these technologies -- to create censorship resistant, trustless, eternal, decentralized peer to peer ledger that cannot be altered is actually quite new and interesting. It shifts the entire power model from authorities to the users. Revolutionary!

If you really believe it is not interesting, that is fine too! The technology is opt-in and voluntary. You can throw as many rocks all you like.
> Captives and slaves, which kidnapped children are the first and often also the second, can be either tools or status symbols (or both simultaneously).

Yes, that's true. But that's the wrong side of the transaction. This IRS policy is disincentivizing false kidnapping. Not actual kidnapping.

The IRS policy is designed to prevent you from claiming a child as a dependent indefinitely after they have been kidnapped. So, for this to be a Veblen good, it'd have to be a status symbol in your social circle to have had a child kidnapped from you.
I am looking for anyone interested in the domain Web3.net

I am the founder of OpenDomain- we have contributed domains worth millions to open source and other causes. All for Free.
The concept is really cool, unfortunately as soon as I started playing it (Firefox) the pieces started moving of their own accord, and the play field started shaking, not sure if it's a game feature or a bug.
I must admit Windows just doesn't know what they are supposed to do.

UWP, .NET Native and C++/CX just tanked due to their mismanagement, and having burned the few believers with what are now about 5 rewrites since Windows 8 was introduced plus having dropped the .NET Native and C++/CX toolchains.

Forget about.WinUI 3.0, it is so messed up that Windows 11 still needs to rely on UWP and WinUI 2.x, despite being "deprecated".

Then we have tons of GUI tooling PMs, each selling their own stack, and every couple of months the faces on community calls keep changing.

There are surely some big fires happening in. Redmond and they keep carrying water buckets hoping to make it right.

Specially since it appears the lack of love between WinDev and DevDiv never went away.

The forces that won over Longhorn have managed to completely mess up WinRT and aren't doing any better with the Project Reunion endeavours.

Anyone that is bored during the season festivities can browse the GitHub issues for WinUI, AppSDK, cppwinrt and a bunch of other ones connected to them.
That you read that into it says more about you than it does me given that I’m not American…
Embarrassed is one thing, at this point he’d be putting himself in mortal danger
> machine level backups

I presume that's block level backups? Or some snapshotting?

As far as I know, block level filesystem copies can get inconsistent (so we have journalling file systems). But assuming it works well, like a filesystem aware snapshot, can sqlite deal with files snapshotted in the middle of an operation?
> Is a political and judgment free classroom an unreasonable expectation?

Probably? It always comes down to history, with art and literature being a reflection of it.

An objective reading of all history, were there time, would still be disliked by any who place political allegiance above greater good. Add in the necessary summarization that must occur, to be able to fit a large amount of material in a smaller amount of class time, and it becomes even more fraught.

Fundamentally, whether to teach a part of history, and how much emphasis or context to put on various parts, is a politically-adjacent question.
It's unfortunate you are getting downvoted. Nobody in this thread has given clear solutions for addressing issues like fault-tolerance, failover, backup and all the managed goodness you can get from choosing Postgres.
If you compare email to snailmail, the same argument could be made. That it's over the internet is just a preference, why care about email when normal mail works perfectly fine?

"Without a single 3rd party" is a technical feature, one that allows people to transfer money anywhere, for any reason via any device connected to the internet, without having to open up a bank account. According to the last numbers I've read, the number of "unbanked" people is above 1 billion in the world, some in my family is included there. For them, cryptocurrencies gives them the opportunity of sending/receiving currency cross-border much easier than what Venmo/Paypal/Transferwise/WesternUnion ever been able to provide (and trust me, we've tried most platforms).

The Bitcoin way of doing transactions is indeed slow and expensive, but there are many alternatives out there, if you care to look for them.

> Edit: I’d also like to point out you still have a third party in crypto. It’s just that the third party is the entire network rather than a single company.

Yup, that's why my comment includes "single 3rd party", not just "any 3rd party". Everyone who understands blockchain understands that there are 3rd parties involved, not everyone seems to understand the difference between multiple and single 3rd parties though.
The first long term studies are due in 2024. You didn't expect them to be ready yet? The trials are ongoing now with large groups testing 3 doses. Some leading edge countries have moved to 4 doses. The data will be available/peered reviewed.
Predictions shouldn't exist because noone is clairvoyant.
>In 99% of the cases shitty HomeKit functionality is because of crappy WiFi. People are using whatever cheapo crap their ISP gave them for free.

FWIW: I consider this to also be an Apple problem. Look, I have no idea how the Airport Express stacked up to the competition really, maybe it was junk, but it generally met my needs and was better than any of the other options I'd used in the past in terms of not having to fiddle with it much. Now imagine you are a consumer with no technical knowledge - do you buy a device or do you go along with whatever your ISP offers you? If Apple made a wifi device of some kind again, of course I'd buy it because I'm already in their ecosystem.
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yeah, I have, there are so many ways to elevate or downrank any altrustic version of Satoshi, or a dead/hiding Satoshi, or an incompetent Satoshi that lost private keys, since its also possible for there to already be an extremely rich Satoshi that doesn't have any incentive to look back

its all fruitless to speculate
They wouldn't even write an article about anything like this if it was the other side. She did work directly with convicted terrorists, she was charged with terrorism but that charge was dropped as a plea deal with those convicted, she was convicted with helping those terrorists. And if they wrote one article because it became a big deal they wouldn't have picked the "convicted terrorist" phrase to fact check, rather they would have fact checked "was X a terrorist" or similar and it would have gotten a clear yes, everything points towards this person was a terrorist.

Choosing what statements or what formulations of statements to fact check is also a part of the bias. People just read the headline, if they read "fact check, X was not a 'convicted terrorist'", they will read that as "X was not a terrorist", the fact checkers knows this and uses that to their advantage when picking the sentence to check and the verdict that will follow.
There's also a distinction between rules that were created by the legislature, possibly motivated by emotion as you describe, and rules resulting from interpretations by courts. While the former has no limits on their reasoning process, the latter is supposed to stick to the intentions of the law, which would preclude emotional decisions.

Presumably the rule is there to subsidize child-rearing. When the child is gone (kidnapping, death, ascention to heaven, etc), the law would logically not apply any more, so there will be details about where the cuttoff falls. If people wanted want to give cash to unfortunate parents, judges interpreting the laws should tell you to pass another law for it.
I'm less bullish on specific deadlines for these kinds of notes. I'm planning to do a weekly summary notification - "you made X notes last week, Y of them were high-priority" https://github.com/maxkrieger/voiceliner/issues/20
Before you start throwing your opinions into HN about sqlite, please read: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/?utm_so...
How does the boot wallpaper get selected in big sur or monterey? If you boot an m1 imac, it will use a wallpaper that matches the colour of your mac.

I can see all the wallpapers are part of the blessed / sealed volume, what i can’t figure out is how it’s choosing with wallpaper to use?

To be clear I’m talking about the very early boot wallpaper before file vault is unlocked. This is not the (user configurable) login screen wallpaper. This is a fixed choice.

My best guess is an nvram key but i didn’t spy an obvious one.
This sounds like what Nebula is attempting to do. A streaming service owned and run by the content creators. https://nebula.app/
No affiliation
Very interesting. Can you speak more about your architecture?
They certainly have the legal right, but I think it is still censorship. See my other comment for other examples of censorship by copyright: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29729059

I do not know much about the case of Salinger's book, but it seems a bit different as apparently he withdrew the story before publication, it was done by the author himself, and the intention does not seem to be ideological. [1][2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Ocean_Full_of...

[2]: I think the ideological intention does kinda matter, e.g. curation of the books in the school libraries is inevitable (unless we abolish copyright and make them all a portal to libgen :-)) and is not censorship. But it _is_ censorship when it is driven by ideology.
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You'd have to do the join on the client. This is a problem in general for scaling SQL - its not impossible, but with sharded SQL servers you have to be very deliberate in how you do joins so as to coincide as much as possible with your sharing strategy.

It would be similar here. According to the author each sqlite DB belongs to a single microservice, which will naturally group together the most common of joins. Anything else will indeed have to be manually joined.

Part of the reason nosql became popular for a bit. That's reversed, and sharded SQL is pretty common now, but it definitely adds more cognitive load to schema design.
Taleb responds to this. If you're getting utility out of something today - financial or nonfinancial, tangible or intangible - then it has worth today, regardless of whether it may be worthless in the future. Only goods that both never provide any utility and will eventually be worthless are subject to his argument.

BTC seems to have value as a religious talisman if nothing else.
Congratulations on the launch! It looks very useful and easy to use as well
I love the impracticality of leaning over to see where you’re going
Are they expected, or are the required?

Because, serializing db access through a single process only becomes a problem when the number of reads/writes get so large, that the process becomes a bottlenec.

And judging by the test the author of the linked article did, that would have to be a HUGE number.
> introducing artificial tokens, quietly giving a huge number of those tokens to founders and early investors (in exchange for actual money, of course), and then hyping the platform to the moon so everyone can cash out their tokens to a new wave of speculators.

In other words a Ponzi-scheme
>I remember Yahoo had another candidate that planned to turn Yahoo into a media company. Which even at the time I thought was a much better idea and direction. Instead the broad choose Mayer, and try to compete head on with Google.

This is exactly right, and it perfectly highlights the dilemma of Yahoo that made it an unwinnable battle. "Being a media company" would have been a real answer, and a real decision that gave Yahoo a spirit and a direction, and it would have been a declaration that is really true to the soul of Yahoo. However, a media company is just a bad thing to be, and competing with Google was a losing battle.

Probably one of the biggest pieces of revisionist history out there today is that the decline of Yahoo was due to personal mismanagement from Marissa Mayer, when the reality was that Yahoo was in decline and her project was to reverse an existing decline, which was an impossible task. Once that reality is acknowledged, debate will ensue that tries to split the difference about how much is column a, how much is column b, but its beside the point when you step back and realize that Yahoo had fundamental challenges that transcended the tenure of any particular CEO.

I've said it before, but I think that if there were any masterstroke Yahoo could have made to revitalize the company, to accomplish what Google could not, Yahoo really could have successfully launched a social network to compete with Facebook. People had been loyal to Yahoo for decades, plus it had some superstar properties like Tumblr, Flickr and Delicious, along with what might be termed its "legacy" properties like Groups, Answers and their massive email userbase. By contrast Google didn't have anything that behaved like a true organic, living and breathing social network when it launched Plus (well, with the exception of Reader). The puzzle pieces were there.
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I know where you’re coming from, but I’m not sure turning back the clock 20 year would be enough.

All of todays issues had its roots in decisions and policies from decades earlier, including from 20 years ago. Even if the US stopped, someone else would’ve stepped in and taken advantage; and at best delay things a generation.

Recall that best practices were to offshore labor, and that was going on since the 1980s and earlier.

Hell, even 25 years ago the tech industry was bellyaching about Republicans categorizing many hardware and software as munitions.

And of course the peak of the labor-offshoring happened around 20 years ago, and many Americans even then believed that a free-market society==free society.

We’re only now collectively coming to terms with that false premise.
There are no titles as individual engineers at Meta. Everyone is software engineer/production engineer/etc.

There's an expectation to reach level 5 within a set timeframe (~3y) so we should expect a "normal" engineer to be capable of this. Level 6 isn't unattainable for someone with experience and enough smarts to know how to spend their time wisely (unless you're an absolute genius you will need to spend time improving others, doing interviews, etc). Level 7+ takes a lot of commitment, focus, and talent.
They should have called it bullshit check and all claims about the future not backed by data and scientific modelling should be automatically marked as BS.
You adjusted the parent's assertion by saying "worn incorrectly by kids and teens" where they only said "masks are effective".

Sure the original article was talking school mandates, but that wasn't the parent's point.

I don't understand how anyone can assert that masks are not useful in preventing the spread of airborne saliva and mucus particles. Have you never in your life had someone talking toward you and had some spit land on you? Have you ever been to a salad bar and seen a sneeze guard? Do you cover your mouth when you cough?

Particles spread a lot when forcefully exhaling, and not just when coughing or sneezing.
The thing about the Senate is it is bastardized tyranny by the minority. Those best able to organize always win-out, and that means large state-bound corporations and major donors become best represented by bodies like the Senate. It’s power is sustained by the appearance of fairness.
One can create read-only users in Postgres.
> Decentralized trust could be great, but I wonder how much time actually needs to be spent talking about it vs. actually building it...

And the order of operations. Traditionally, you build something great (or an MVP) and market it. The crypto community has been putting the marketing before the building.

It's probably uncontroversial to say although cryptocurrency -could- do great things, right now the bulk of trade in the first world is speculation. Meanwhile there are television ads in the US aimed at football fans telling them how they can trade cryptocurrency. WTF does the average football fan need with cryptocurrency?
> to the point where some elementary schools are teaching "white" children they should feel guilty for being born "white."

No they aren't. No one is doing this anywhere.
Testing with JMeter, I got upto 10,000 concurrent writes on SQLite with WAL mode enabled
Note that despite the similar price points and form factors they serve two different purposes.

The Raspberry Pi is a full computer shrunk down and made (relatively) cheaply.

The Arduino is a cheap microcontroller made large for convenience. Things like on-board voltage regulation and USB make prototyping much easier. But these conveniences cost money and make the total cost (relatively) expensive. A professional might (keyword: might, don't come at me professional hardware designers!) use an Arduino board for creating a prototype and then design fully a custom product based on what they learned.

You wouldn't (in 2021) try to build a computer around the microcontroller in the Arduino because it's so underpowered but you might use it for a smart, cheap motion sensor with a long battery life.
It means mask mandates that allow cotton masks as opposed to surgical masks or N95s aren't worth as much.
This. Exactly everywhere, not government only. Why pay market rates to actual developers when you can get bottom of the barrel scum for $2000 a day
Poland is not a democracy and does not have a democratic culture. They should never have been accepted into the EU. Chuck 'em out and let Russia "talk" to them, the tough guys.
I do not understand who benefits and in what way from any of this?

Could you help me out on this?
I got a handful. (At least, there are a handful of answers I have >85% confidence of being correct.) For an American, that feels like a not-terrible unseen result.
> One of the points of fact-checking is to point out to "yeah, it's unlikely" to people who would not otherwise know.

Saying some prediction about the future is unlikely to be correct is not fact-checking. That's the whole point. Predictions aren't facts. Unlikely predictions aren't false facts. They're unlikely predictions.

> because the probability of an asteroid colliding with earth is only 99.7%, not 100%, the fictional US president decides it's OK to "sit tight and assess".

Saying that it is a good idea to act on predictions that are overwhelmingly likely is not the same as saying that those predictions are facts.

If you want to improve other people's critical thinking skills, you need to make sure yours are good. Calling predictions facts and acting as if they're the same thing is not good critical thinking.
The thing I find perhaps the most telling is what's missing -- namely the lack of discussion around the already-done implementations of the technologies that are being hyped as "web3" things; e.g. there is certainly quite a bit that could be learned from Second Life slash The Sims slash Roblox slash Minecraft, and yet, all hype and no grownup discussion of what could be learned here.
I hear people bring up this example to scoff at every now and then, but it’s always some unstated rationale. The progression of technology mostly allows us to live like royalty compared to people 300 years ago, minus the terrible indignity of having to work.

I’ve yet to hear an explicitly stated argument for why I’m supposed to think someone who has access to a refrigerator, internet, food, etc. is impoverished, except for, “Somesuch CEO earns 100000000x more than they do.”

That said, sure, “welfare royalty” seems like a misnomer. I assume they typically live like regular, “middle-class” people without the job part.
> Elon Musk mentioned Nick Szabo on Lex Fridman's podcast as Szabo was also doing Bit Gold prior and is heavy into crypto and currencies. [3]

>> "Obviously I don't know who created bitcoin ... it seems as though Nick Szabo is probably more than anyone else responsible for the evolution of those ideas," said Musk, adding, "he claims not to be Nakamoto ... but he seems to be the one more responsible for the ideas behind it than anyone else."

Why do Elon Musk's speculations have any credibility here? It's not his field, and even in his field he has a track record of making confident public statements that turn out to be wildly wrong.
I think about this too regarding being a producer vs. consumer

Still I get to the point where I can't think/function anymore, and then find something to do/surf something/get those points
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I am not trying to "score points" or make "gotchas" here, I am genuinely engaging in honest discourse. I am unable to see how the sentence "We do need people to come to texas to flip it blue." can be interpreted as anything but literally "encouraging mass migration." as far as I can tell, Democrat voters encouraging mass migration of other Democrat voters to specific states that meet specific criteria is the only instance of this pattern of behavior that exists in the country right now, and I'm interested in digging deeper and trying to figure out why this is, where the ideological difference comes from. I don't think many people acknowledge that this is a core ideological distinction at play here, because it's difficult to imagine oneself as having the opposite worldview.
Sure, but that becomes a requirement at that particular design junction. A lot of stuff is built with HA that isn't even close to that complex.
So Paul Le Roux is out now as prime suspect. He was arrested 2012, and in 2009 he was still on the run, and certainly not in the US. More like in Brazil, Philippines or Hong Kong.