skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “In 2021, the world woke up to the potential of NFTs to unlock utility and economic empowerment across a vast set of industries, communities and creative categories,” said Devin Finzer, one of the founders and the chief executive of OpenSea.

Can anyone explain to me the utility of an NFT? I don't understand why it's anything other than some code (written on a blockchain) saying you own this. But people can just copy whatever you own (assuming it's digital like an image). And if it's a physical thing with an NFT attached to it, why is an NFT better than a certificate of ownership?

I guess a better question is: what problem does an NFT solve?
> people get really mad and their days get spoiled because a train arrives 5 minutes too late

A state of affairs immortalized in the famous sentence "Everything is amazing and nobody is happy".
But... Do they have any technical or at least legal measures in place for instance companies or investigators to subpoena this data after a crash? And use it against the driver.

Right now it just states that there should be "measures" in place so that only the "member states" should have access for the original purpose. Given that most politicians live in fantasy land when it comes to technology (in another example they think they can mandate backdoors and still guarantee privacy) I would like to see more specs on this.

If it's not really effective, and I doubt it, it is still a matter of "your car is surveilling you" in my opinion. As good as the intentions may have been, once the data is there it will be used for other purposes. Did we really forget Snowden already?

Not saying this wasn't done with good intentions but I'm sceptical it won't be pushed further in short order. I'm glad I don't need to drive anymore, it's too stressful.
and here i thought this was about undocumented behavior in a programming language... https://crystal-lang.org/
How's that link aggregator looking? Have you reached your goals?
When I first started my own consultancy, I grew my hair out. I never had long hair before and thought, "why not?" At the same time, our newly purchase house had a cockroach infestation (which the prior owners did not disclose).

One morning I decided to blow-dry my hair. The dryer had a hard time starting. Then a chunk, chunk noise occurred. Finally, a stream of brown paste shot out from the dryer. I threw it away and never used one again.

My coarse, gray hair was always wet morning, noon, and night. It was awful. That is the reason I get haircuts even if I'm not trying to impress anyone.
Does it have to be radar? You can get cheap off the shelf waterproofed sonar modules that should be able to measure that distance. If its a hobby project where you specifically want to use radar, you can ignore this comment.
Doesn’t “NEET” mean “Not in education, employment, or training?”
I never had any issues at all with it. I believe it was all tied in with how stable your graphics card driver was. I grew tired of it after a few months and went back to boring old xfce flat, square windows, but it was fun while it lasted and peopel were always impressed by it.
I think this is a poor take, as engineering and management are entirely different skill sets
To you, wearing a mask is not a problem. For me it is and I hate wearing one, although I do it because the law has forced me to. Wearing a mask makes me feel hot. It fogs up my glasses. Breathing is uncomfortable and strained. I dislike not being able to see people’s smiles and emotions. If those things are not important to you, so be it. But it matters to me, and I don’t think it is reasonable to reframe a difference in what I feel or value as being discourteous. That to me feels like a lack of basic empathy as well.

To explore this further - I question why people should be forced to wear a mask just so others can have the reduced risk conditions that enable them to go about their normal lives. Why don’t those who are worried about COVID simply quarantine themselves and let everyone else go about their lives freely? The notion that wearing masks suddenly gives risk averse people the safety they desire doesn’t make sense. On the one hand, I hear extreme fear of COVID despite its very low infection fatality rate. On the other hand, despite those fears, people seem to be OK with leaving home if there are mask mandates, even though there still is a nonzero risk of them being infected. So which is it - because clearly if this is a deadly virus everyone should fear, the only reasonable stance is to self-quarantine - in which case it doesn’t matter what others do. This makes me view mask mandates as wholly arbitrary theater, something that is now a political football for those who favor statist approaches.

As for your claim that lockdowns have not existed anywhere - that depends on what you feel a lockdown is. Certainly various cities and states have restricted activities of different kinds to different degrees. Claiming there has been no lockdown feels disingenuous to me.

Lastly, regarding authoritarianism: I consider local/state/federal governments implementing vaccine mandates or forcing businesses to violate the bodily autonomy and health privacy of their customers/employees to be authoritarian. And I say that as a fully vaccinated person. I prefer a system of governance where individuals retain agency and can decide locally what to do with their bodies, what the risks are, and what risks they are willing to tolerate.
> Reading books and thinking about different afterlives might help if you end up in one

Only if it's vaguely similar to the one discussed in the book. If it's completely different it wouldn't help at all.
Well he’s not the only one.
How do you systematically (and proactively) ensure your testing is thorough? With testing you often run into unknown unknown cases.

I’ve always code reviewed/gotten code reviewed on both the implementation and the tests, with completeness as the main quality you’re reviewing test code for. If that’s how we do it, we’re right back at code reviews.
Sorry you feel this! I agree, leetcode is no good.

The nice thing is that there are lots of jobs out there that don't require leetcode skills. Sure, there are many jobs that do, too, but you can avoid them by looking at the job req.

Source: I too am bad at leetcode but have had many jobs in my career, including three different employers since 2019.
One of my friends in DC was just complaining the other day about how the conductor wasn't able to manually stop the train properly and caused a delay (that led to a missed connection).

Clearly it's still not back 100%, even 12 years later. I mean, if they cared about fixing it, they'd fix it by now. Any halfway competent system should be able to figure out something like that after more than a decade.
Nah it's just another scam that will leave the gullible and desperate in a very sad state when it falls apart. It's basically a modern equivilant of the Albanian ponzi schemes that led to civil war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanian_Civil_War
I probably should have worded it differently to avoid that connotation. There are a lot of identity protocols but that's not what I was focusing on.

On HN I am Sargos. You know this because I am replying to you and only I can do that with this account. I can also tell you that I'm @JamesCarnley on Twitter but there's no way for you to verify that. If I were using my public key to log into HN and Twitter you would know those are both my accounts and thus my persona is verified across multiple applications. If I were to link my public key to my government's identity database then you'd also be able to verify I am really James in real life as well.
> 4% price increase to get to a living wage. Not $15 sandwiches, just $7.28 instead of $7. Pay your employees. It's that simple.

At a large chain like Chipotle, sure. But most "fine dining" restaurants have razor thin margins on food. Alcohol is how they make money. With the pandemic, people have switched to ordering food for takeout and therefore restaurants can no longer make a profit on drinks.

There's also two other aspects the author won't touch on: if you open a legitimate fine dining restautant you'll have to compete with places employing illegal aliens. And lastly, some restaurants are really just fronts for money laundering. They can operate a really long time without making any real profit; it's a business where it's easy to claim some large transactions were made in cash.
How Long Have I Got Left? (2014)
I highly suspect there's room for disruption in at-home education - it's so terrible right now.

It'd be interesting to see if VR is a possible solution for such use cases. I think VR tech has to advance a bit more (in terms of ease of use, as well as affordability) before it can be used this way, but these early adopters' experience (see https://blog.immersed.team/working-from-orbit-39bf95a6d385) seems pretty positive to me.
Temporarily dead perhaps, but either way, emotionally scarred for life, most likely.
Not really, these effects are nothing to modern graphics cards.
Seconded. Is pumping bags some kind of cross between pump and dump + bag holder? Searching pumping bags only got me results about bags for breast pumps??
I get the incredulity, but it is not wishful thinking. It really does work that way. Given a random Rust codebase, it is more likely than not it would parallelize with rayon, cleanly and trivially.

Of course it is possible to write Rust in a way it wouldn't parallelize with rayon. But this is an empirical statement: a random Rust codebase isn't likely to be written that way.
Ask HN: What Micro SaaS would you pay for?
How much would you pay for it?

Trying to bring people who want to get stuff built to meet with people who build. Might build something myself.
You may need to jump out of your current pond and make your way to a new one. Leetcode problem-solving is not highly correlated with much. Plenty of employers will spring a Leetcode problem on you to join, others won’t. It’s mostly a bubble.
That's stupid. If you're assuming common sense, common sense is to not cut open thick cables without ensuring they're disconnected. It's just as much common sense as not working on your car with it's engine on.

"Consumer-serviceable" parts don't exist. That being said, yes, you may want to replace the HEPA filter, or any other parts in the ventilation system, for example.

High voltage safety pracitces are simple in this case. Is the battery completely disconnected from the rest of the car? Yes? Then it's safe. No? Then the car is on, and it's not safe, just like any vehicle.

If Mercedes don't make available a way to ensure the main battery is disconnected and no high-voltage circuit is energized, that's on them, and they are 100% in the wrong. Otherwise, there is an easy, common-sense way to make all of this safe for your average Bozo to work on.

And by the way, this is a much higher standard than the one we use today. I can happily go an kill myself by fucking up my brake system. No one will stop me. Why is this off-limits, then?
>> offering homes to the female prisoners of war was relatively compassionate.

more likely sex slaves, given the references to young virgins.
> funding for that is not adequate to the point where you can reasonably expect it to continue as usual in the midst of a global pandemic

The US spends way more on education per capita than many countries that were able to keep their schools open during 2020-2021: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd
He has a youtube channel, he wants to look presentable.
DC residents should get one-person-one-vote, like most things. We should get rid of 1700s planter superuser backdoors like the disproportional Senate and electoral college.
The utility of an NFT is for the seller, and that utility is an opportunity to make money by selling it to someone. When you buy an NFT you gain the ability to sell it, and that's about it. People buy NFTs hoping that they can sell them for more money than they bought it.
Related to this valuation: it's a marketplace. Putting aside my thoughts on NFTs themselves, is there data that suggests the marketplace itself provides enough utility to justify the valuation?

Separately, I really do wonder if it's time that places like OpenSea borrow from traditional investment and provide some warning upfront.

For example, modified from the traditional investment verbiage:

> Investments in NFTs: Not FDIC Insured • No Bank Guarantee • May Lose Value. Investing in NFTs involves risks, and there is always the potential of losing money when you invest in NFTs.
>Gainesville, FL

never a more laughable thing has there been uttered. UF has an "incubator" that consists of wet labs repurposed for house software startups (we were literally in a room with test tube holders and sinks and no proper desks). there are some random coworking spaces (like the one that doubles as a dorm lolol) but mostly everyone is a complete wantrepreneur. tech talent coming out of UF is also solidly mediocre (anyone good goes to SF or NYC). finally unless you love football and/or nature walks (not hikes) the town is dreadfully boring.
I have Omicron right now. I’m vaccinated and had my booster in November. I’m young, healthy, I work remotely and I’m struggling to make it through half a day. My symptoms aren’t even that bad, I’m just exhausted all the time. There is no way I could do a job where I had to be on my feet all day. I can barely carry on a conversation.

The problem right now where I live is that everyone is sick. Grocery stores, restaurants, delivery services and even fucking Walmart are closed because they don’t have enough employees to operate. The schools tried to open but it was a disaster with half the teachers out sick so they just postponed opening them a week in hopes it will go away.

This wave will be over, but without lasting immunity in the population the next mutation could be worse. We could very well be dealing with this the rest of our lives and there is no return to “normal”. We’re in the new normal.
Because at some point you'll start tripping over it.
Sorry for the off-topic comment here but I cant help but tell you that your username reminds me of a user who posted on a couple gaming forums I used to frequent in the early 2000s.
> If that's a regular issue that's a culture problem.

Couldn’t one also argue that if code reviews are routinely catching problems mentioned earlier in the thread (misinterpreted requirements, conflicts with other WIP, etc.) then that’s a cultural problem? It just seems odd to assume that the person assigned the task couldn’t possibly be expected to routinely avoid those problems, but that adding rigorous code review could routinely avoid them.
Maybe I am a Luddite who simply does not understand NFTs, but despite reading many articles about them, I still am left feeling that an NFT is just a decentralized digital furby.
I wouldn't be so rosy about that claim. Sure in small pockets things are good, in others-- mild improvements, in still others, probably as bad.
Follow the (lack of) money.
> Pull requests discourage trust.

Good. You shouldn't trust my code until it's been reviewed. I don't even trust my own code until its been reviewed! I've gotten much better with time specifically because of the things I've learned from reviews, but having another pair of eyes on my code still frequently uncovers things I overlooked while in the weeds.

> Pull requests don't prevent bugs.

This is just wrong. It doesn't prevent all bugs, but nothing does. Reviews, testing, static analysis, requirements, proofs - they're all designed to improve confidence in software. They all work to varying degrees, but none of them are perfect.

> Pull requests slow down.

Good. This is a feature. If a change is big enough that it takes significant time for another qualified engineer to review, there's a high chance that an issue will be uncovered. At the very least, it ensures another engineer is familiar with the changes.

If reviews drag on because engineers don't treat them as high priority, then that's a culture problem - not a problem with reviews.
Unified Notification API in Pyhon
That's not how this works. We create a government and decide what rights citizens have. We did that, wrote a whole constitution about it. Then we make sure every citizen has those rights.

If there are imbalances in the design of the government, that's a separate problem that we fix on its own. Depriving some subset of citizens of their rights is not the answer.
How do you know the rich and well connect were protected? Do you know that other prosecutions aren't being planned?
It means increasing the price by selling the asset to the next bag holder with FOMO.
No optional GC:

https://ziglang.org/
Workaround - I tried installing the gem "bribery" but it only works intermittently and often fails silently.
another option might be to move out all the federal offices etc that have been centralized in DC and share it across all states?

DC would have the absolutely essential Federal jobs

Today, with secure communications, we should be able to achieve it?
Socially and culturally it's undeniable, it's now completely unacceptable in my professional and social circles to publicly support one of our two political parties.

Politically, outside of the obvious 2020 election, there has been unbridled and unprecedented government spending since at least the beginning of the pandemic. Whether it was justified is up for debate, we likely still haven't realized all of the effects, but it has been at levels typically only those further on the left would propose.
It gets annoying.
Value in price is whatever someone is willing to pay for the product. There is 0 requirement for it to be logical or make any sense. Any commodity can be valuable given a market demand for it.

(I think Trading jpg files is stupid)
> code review isn't a good place to catch actual bugs.

Disagree, but it's also a good place to be ensuring that the system is evolving in a way that is reasonable and consistent — or that it is unreasonable and inconsistent for good reasons.
The survivors of the pandemic will be, by and large, just fine. Like has happened with every other disaster.
Classic Perl. Those were the days.
To enrich the people selling digital tulips (or 256-colors GIFs, whatever you prefer).

Just like Bitcoin... https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/
There was a post on r/AmITheAsshole about a tech guy giving his fiance an Ape NFT worth 8k for christmas, when all she wanted was a $200 bag.

https://www.themarysue.com/dont-buy-your-girlfriend-an-nft-f...

The Twitter hate on Carson's Turner buying of @JoeRogApe is just astounding.

https://twitter.com/carsonturner/status/1477520574620606465

I think we've hit peak NFT. Given that and all the verbal web3 hate I've been witnessing, I expect NFT to go south shortly.
NFTs provide a way to "own" something digital, except unlike DRM, the asset is based on an open standard and easily transferable without any intermediary. It's easy to verify the creator and prove you're the owner. Combine that with speculative price discovery and you have a pretty fun way to bet on art online.
That's correct. "Pumping my bags" sounds like a confused metaphor for "increasing the value of my holdings by promoting them".
To be fair the minimum wage in Bristol, where google says Sandwich Sandwich is located, is $7.25 while it’s $16.32 in SF.

You’d expect the 4GBP sandwich to cost $12 in SF just based on labor cost. I imagine rent and ingredients also cost more.
> what problem does an NFT solve?

It automates and simplifies the identification of Tusser opportunities.
This strikes me as extremely kludgey, inelegant and ugly. And this is coming from someone who rarely has qualms with pretty terrible hacks if they'll get the job done. I'd expect something like this to happen in BASH (pretty sure I've written approximately this in the past year), but it pains my heart to see this being done to a PyLang.

What a mess python can be, it is spectacular in this way. While it's possible with any tool, this deserves a special category award:

I hereby nominate thee probable annual 2022 winner of:

HN Kludge of the Year

With PyTorch AI derived confidence of 0.99999
Verified probably isn't the right word here. Authentic would probably work better.

I as a person have accounts on lots of apps but no real way to prove I own all of them. When you use a public key as your identifier then everyone can verify that the entity that owns Sargos on HN also owns Blah on Reddit if I want them to. Essentially you can trust that the digital entity you are interacting with is the digital entity you knew and trusted on the rest of the web in the past.

If you are using a web3 app and see vitalik.eth then you know for a fact that it's Vitalik Buterin. Unfortunately we only know this for sure because he said that is his address in public but there are many identity protocols trying to solve this problem and if you were to tie your public key to your government's identity database then you would be able to prove real world provenance.
The kind of money for public transit that would alleviate congestion on I95 (the proximate cause of yesterdays nightmare) has never ever been on the table. It would never get through Richmond or Annapolis.
This regexp and the whatwg one it is based off (correctly) do not validate the presence of a TLD since it's not technically required (foo@bar is considered valid). But if you are building consumer products it's best to test that there is at least a presence of something TLD-like after validating against this regexp.
People aren’t moving out of CA to less tax-y places. They’re moving to cheaper places (with less to offer).

There’s a net migration of rich people into CA (and there always has been). It’s the lower income that move out because they simply can’t afford CA. Rich people can afford CA and so they move here.
I'm not a huge fan of NFTs, but they do actually solve a problem. They allow you to prove that you own a digital asset, without having to have anyone "vouch" for you. I can prove I own it myself. They also allow me to trade that digital asset without being encumbered by arbitrary or unclear rules.

For example, an NFT could be a usable as a game license. It's nice that I could trade the game license to someone else without having the game developer approve it.

Now the practical applications for this are pretty limited at the moment, largely due to the fact that the larger/more secure chains such as Ethereum are very limited in their transaction rate, and as a result transactions cost a lot. This restricts the use case to multi-thousand dollar digital assets, such as dumb rock jpegs or digital real estate.

To most reasonable people, this looks dumb. I agree that it is. However, if the transaction rate goes up dramatically (which is currently possible on layer 2), then the use cases open up dramatically to things that normal people might actually be able to use.

We aren't there yet (I do think we will get there, but really it's totally fair to criticize NFTs before we get there).
Even those on the right were, at least temporarily, willing to accept unprecedented levels of government spending.
My wife is a teacher in a low income school. Many of her kids went to CPS and some simply vanished just like you mentioned.

people don’t realize the level of support an elementary school provides to many children.
You can even automate JSON scraping/parsing with GitHub Actions:

https://github.com/nalgeon/metro/blob/main/.github/workflows...
Excellent point. There are some people trying to just freeze heads, and you're right this may have some terrifying and unforeseen consequences to the potential person who might pop out the other end of that process. Can you imagine the possible body horror even with a cloned body?

That said, when discussing consciousness, abstractly, it's sort of a necessary vs. sufficient distinction. The brain may be sufficient to maintain identity even without the body. The inverse is certainly not true.