skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree with you - and this is what I fear will happen. There will be gatekeeping across resources in the future that we previously didn't have formal gatekeeping (ie had different ways to monetize) and that NFTs + Crypto end up serving a gatekeeping functionality. Enough of a function that people HAVE to buy into crypto which would then raise the valuations even though it doesn't have large scale functionality.

This use case isn't an appealing use case FWIW - it is a use case though. Already seen coffee with NFTs being sold (mind you its marketing BS trying to signal its modernity, no function).
Same here, in some ways I regard myself as a pre-abolition slave owner/user (analogy breaks down somewhat, is it the farmer who is the slave owner?). I get the feeling society will change and this thing that used to be common will slide towards being seen as despicable, worthy of having your statue thrown in the water.

Originally I was reducing my meat intake for health reasons but thinking about it more and more it does seem to be a cruel thing to kill animals for meat, and doesn't seem necessary. I still do it at a reduced rate because I'm basically not strong willed enough and I want to be part of society, which has very few qualms about raising animals for slaughter. I also can't deny the stuff tastes good, and one thing I've seen with addictive traits is it's very hard to separate your desires from your moral judgement: if you want something, you will think of an excuse to get it. So now I just acknowledge the hypocrisy and eat a bit of meat now and again.

One loophole I thought about was wild animals. Maybe someone has thought about this more than me, but wild fish and roaming animals would be condemned to either predation, disease, or starvation if we didn't hunt them. Does that change the moral calculus? I'm not sure.
The real use case of NFT is that you could have a token that you can trade. We'll call the token a "coin" (and since it's digital, a "bit"coin) and you can trade it with other people.
And the earlier EMACS: The Extensible, Customizable Display Editor by rms
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html

which is more of a 10,000 foot view.
In the case of Ethereum, I see it more as acknowledging it is a problem under Proof of Work and they are moving off it this year _because_ it's a problem. They are making tangible progress with the Kintsugi test net coming out last month.

How else are they supposed to address it other than acknowledging the problem, laying out a roadmap, and taking steps towards the end goal?
Sure, but that's the case with all traditions. Plenty of things that westerners see as barbaric (slavery, ritual genital mutilation, institutionalized torture) are still common in the developed world (and often openly endorsed by western governments).

Edit to add: The bigger picture is that for a set of practices, even if they still occur on a smaller scale than in the past, that's probably strictly an improvement.
I don’t notice any. I also don’t use RDP - for Amazon Workspaces I use their app that utilizes the PCoIP protocol.

Other than that my last job was working at one of the largest banks in the United States. We were 100% virtual desktop since 2014.

My current employer just switched to about 95% virtual desktop.

Nobody ever complains about latency. I think it’s a given that literally everyone will switch to this method at some point - there are too many positives.
I built my own restaurant app in 2 days
Novak Djokovic arrested in Australia, despite winning in court case
You can complain about everything in the world, but not about masks. Masks work, we've known they work since at least 1919. When worn correctly by large groups of people in risky environments (indoors, poor airflow), they greatly reduce transmission rates.

Everything else, you can say stuff about, vaccines have side effects, we don't know if and how much they reduce transmission, treatments are in flux, but masks are a simple and obvious solution with almost 0 side effects.
To build a detailed example for the "creator economy", something that would be profitable for creators and video game studios is cross-game items, not for game play like in the twitter thread, but content creators could have in-game cosmetic items that identify a player as part of their clan/guild.

There is a huge market for content creators having large fan bases that literally pay them money via subscriptions, merch, etc. while they broadcast their gaming sessions live online. The entire business model for Epic's Fortnite is all cosmetic items via season passes, in-game transactions, etc. The game is free to play.

If content creators were to issue NFT's that represented a cosmetic item badge/emblem, which could be bought/sold/traded on an independent marketplace and each game studio was pressured to allow these emblems/badges across games then the content creator would profit on transactions and possibly the game studios could profit - maybe they get a cut via smart contracts if that's possible.

It wasn't very long ago that cross-platform play was not allowed by Sony and Microsoft and the game studios and players pushed for it. Major games have cross-platform play now, its expected in multi-player console games. Cross-game cosmetic items could be a huge thing for studios, indie content creators and and an opportunity for always online game platforms to get income from marketing/advertising. When there's a new comic book hero movie coming out, the movie studio could release cross-game cosmetic items (i.e. look like spidey) that players could then sell/trade later on. I would agree you don't need the tech from crypto or NFT's to accomplish this but it sounds like that tech has the features needed.
That's like saying blame authoritarianism not communism. Communism led to authoritarianism in every country where it was tried. Blaming one means blaming the other indirectly.

Same here.
2 problems with that approach IMHO:

* That tax would have to be so high to fully pay for the environmental damages mining is causing, that it would make mining not economically viable anyway. So might as well save yourself from burning public funds trying to find ways to legislate and enforce that tax (no secret that crypto people tend to not declare a lot of their coins).

* Allowing new/more emissions to happen now counting on the fact that we will just take that carbon out of the atmosphere later on is exactly the wrong thing to do. We will already need gigantic monetary and technological investments to make that technology able to pump out any significant amount of CO2 assuming we do all the right things toward decarbonization until this is possible, so we don't really need to shoot ourselves in our only remaining foot by just adding more CO2 to be removed.
Not emitting one ton of CO2 today is much much more valuable than pumping one ton out later on, just because of the massive amount of energy needed to pump it out.

So I think banning is absolutely the right choice.
I have never witnessed a status quo so blithely defended.

We are free to imagine and strive for a different world than the one we find ourselves in, and I would argue those trying to stifle that are the ones who should be banned from forums.
You want to move yourself oop north, Greater Manchester's "Bee Network" delivers fully segregated cycle lanes - they've just done a large tranche of work to the roads south of Stockport to resize the road to make the walkways wider.

That said, haven't seen them actually used yet. Pass a lot more cyclists that choose the road, still.

https://activetravel.tfgm.com/bee-network-vision/
12% of the USA's economy is illegal activity. [1]

0.5% of Bitcoin's volume is illegal activity. [2]

When will this crime meme finally die?

[1]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/032916/how-big...

[2]: https://ciphertrace.com/2020-year-end-cryptocurrency-crime-a...
> I've seen some minimum wage discussions on general topic forums (e.g. news) where the top 40-50 comments were vehemently against raising it.

source?

>By contrast thes (the current top 2 posts) seem pretty organic to me though:

what makes these more organic than the ones in "general topic forums"? Is it just because "well obviously most people would be pro-minimum wage, therefore any comment that's for minimum wage is organic and any that's against is bots"
Misleading explanations are never great. Sure, abstract it a bit to make it easier to understand, yes that makes it great for non-technical people. But misleading them to "prove" your point? Never great.

Anyone with a basic understanding of NFTs will immediately see that you don't understand what you're talking about if you use that explanation, as NFTs have nothing to do with URLs, art or whatever. It's simply a currency with the total supply being 1. Nothing less, nothing more.

Confusing that with the whole "NFT Art" space is just doing everyone a disservice, as there are people who actually understand NFTs, and are against them, but based on their actual capabilities, not some fake thing you've made it.
Log4Shell Shows the Need for “Trustworthy Java”
https://github.com/cnpm/bug-versions is another choice
More like equity between middle class and rich. The poor are getting free stuff at expense of both.
I did some freelancing (of the "setup an ecommerce site on a vps with some customisation and plugins for mom-and-pop shop" variety) in the 90s. No big jobs just lots of small ones to make some beer money.

The usual process was install osCommerce, add some extras, zip it all up and manually deploy it to a VPS and transfer the credentials to the owners.

The work was mostly found by word of mouth so it wasn't unusual to get emails asking for assistance/to do work out of the blue.

Had one such email to change an existing shop up a bit. Probably no more than a few days work. Received their credentials and ssh'd to the host machine to take a look. Scanning the source files of the plugins had me head scratching in a couple of places, decided this was compiled by someone terrible. Scrolled some more and saw the author's details. Oops. So that's how they got my email address.
Impressive stuff. Especially cool to see it licensed with Apache. I hope Godot integrates it.
This isn’t a new point. We form social consensus and agree that data on the blockchain means something. The meaning can then be enforced in courts. If you are saying that if my digital assets are stolen, and I can identify the thief, I have no legal recourse that’s just laughable. There are plenty of judges that disagree with you.

Further, there are more benefits to using a blockchain than proof of ownership. You can tokenize your new non fungible assets, transfer them permissionlessly, use them as bearer credentials, etc.

Not trying to be offensive here, but you and others in this thread are thinking way too small about the potential usecases of NFTs. They are more than just pictures of apes.
That doesn’t sound right to me. Gmail itself lacks a restrictive DMARC policy. They use p=none.
nuance required:

- vet pnpm and the multiple dependency install

- consider bundling with roll-up for a dependency free userland experience and compare
If only this style of argument worked with my wife
I am usually embarrassed by my code of five minutes ago, but someone has to write it.
> VR workstation allows you to bypass limits like Fitt's Law

How does VR allow one to bypass Fitt’s law? I find target acquisition even harder in 3D settings, which really is only compensated for by having very large targets in VR UIs.
We’re very Lucky
In French but not in Swiss German.
They are recorded, as part of regular, normal statistics (cause of death, etc).
Why not blame human nature's shortcomings, instead of any *ism... Capitalism, Communism, Socialism and what not.
I’m interested in this as well and know nothing but know of a few things.

I know of The Craft of Text Editing.

https://www.finseth.com/craft/

There’s also the Racket editors, which includes a text editor control, in the Racket Graphical Interface Toolkit. It’s what is used to implement the DrRacket IDE.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/gui/editor-overview.html
This isn't what an NFT is. To be complete, at least, there should also be a distributed and secure worldwide ledger to which anybody can access that says that you gave this exact piece of paper to your friend on that date.
So what would you propose as a solution specifically for Oxford? Many streets such as Abingdon Rd are already narrow enough and I can't see how one could segregate a dedicated lane for cyclists there.
There are people who exist that just like the language.
I thought there was a thread about this a couple of days ago.

A Ponzi Scheme is where the sum of all investor's reported account values exceed the total value of assets held by the institution.

In order to sustain the fraud, new investors are sought out to get capital to pay out old customers.

Bitcoin may be a scam, or may be used by scammers, etc., but it's not a Ponzi. Rather than give it a label, say what you think is happening -- that it's an asset bubble sustained only by the existence of greater fools and thin, unregulated, manipulated markets. That's fine and we can argue points on that. But calling it a Ponzi just makes things confusing.
If you own the marketplace you can take an x% cut of every transaction. Seems like something that would pay for itself pretty quickly?
This reminded me of Black Perl, a poem written in Perl 3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
The problem is deeper - even IF a country wanted to and successfully used a blockchain to store information on, say, property deeds, it would EITHER have to have no recourse in case of any fraud, theft, or abuse OR it would just be a centralized managed database.

IF there is a mechanism for someone (or someones) to certify changing or reissuing a token in case of the death of the holder (the passphrase dies with him but the land continues to exist) THEN that same mechanism can be used or abused by the authority to do other transfers and reissues.
You can also say that blockchains have mechanisms that prevent a government from coercing third parties from handing over your NFTs to someone else.

I'll agree that the analogy wasn't perfect though - I added an edit for another analogy (still as imperfect as it may be).
In the Netherlands there are also roads with just a painted bike lane. The difference is that the whole bike lane is painted in a solid color (usually reddish). This gives a constant visual feedback to drivers. Because of the paint it is just ever so slightly raised and has a different texture than the regular asphalt, so there can be a noticable difference in sound when car tires go onto the bike lane.

See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling_in_the_Netherlands#/me...
Proof of stake has been ~18months away for ethereum since 2015.

Sure, they've built some stuff at this point, but have made no progress on the inner politics of the issue. So it remains in some untouchable future for the time being.
Well, it's not one anecdote - it's 70+ in my apartment complex and probably 100+ overall, but I get your point.
> A big problem in this industry is sensitive people like you. ... I can't imagine what life would be like if I had you as a colleague.

Jesus Christ. There's just no need for this level of bile, on Hacker News or anywhere else for that matter.

The funny thing is, I have a lot of sympathy for your original comment. I have worked with the odd coworker or two (hence throwaway) who surely were autistic and were impossible to work with and the two things were certainly connected. It may not be PC but it's true. But stately things plainly doens't need to extend to personal insults, never mind this extreme.
Agreed. I've had requests ahead of start dates and it was not a problem for those I turned down; accepting/attending has always been optional and appreciated, but nothing more than that.
I'd argue with your use of the term 'represent' there because there's nothing about the NFT that actually represents the asset. Here's the IPFS URL stored on-chain for an actual NFT, or actually an IPFS gateway link to the actual IPFS record so you can view it in a browser:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmdNvqCbd7qYvtyFJdd3zoJC84cvyCiSxYDfsiY...

This IPFS record gives the Makerspace gateway address for the artwork so you can view the image the NFT supposedly refers to:

https://ipfsgateway.makersplace.com/ipfs/QmNopeEan1r728EGpAY...

These are all just references, they don't represent the image itself. If Makerspace goes away so does that copy of the image, and the NFT becomes a reference to nothing. The NFT doesn't even include a hash of the image, so Makerspace could replace the image with another one and nobody would be able to tell. What image did you see when you opened the URL? Are you sure it's the same one I saw? How would you know?

All you own is some bits on a blockchain containing a URL to someone else's website that has no relationship or obligation to you. A lot of NFTs refer to Cloudfront URLs. Do you think Cloudfront gives a crap about your NFT?
> And doing dmarc properly requires a reporting service.

This is incorrect.

DMARC requires nothing but an email address to send reporting to. It costs nothing to implement and there are open source [0] solutions out there if you want to monitor the reporting being sent.

And to clarify - the reporting you're getting back from a DMARC is either an aggregate or a forensic report. There aren't many email providers that actually send forensic reporting anymore, the 99% of reports you'll get are aggregate in nature.

And finally, remember that if you don't have a policy of "REJECT" set on your domains, DMARC isn't doing you a whole lot of good.

[0] https://github.com/domainaware/parsedmarc
Very well done, esp. the nokogiri bit :D

That said if you're in Ruby land and do want something "shiny", I'd encourage you to look at Jeremy Evans work (Roda and Sequel in particular) and some of the broader ecosystem beyond Rails. There's a lot of good stuff beyond just Rails :)

https://github.com/jeremyevans
Anytime's a good time to go vegan.
I believe this is the same technique (dye sublimation) that Canon uses in their small photo printer range (Selphy line). Those printers work with ink sheets where the ink is transferred one color at a time (yellow, red and blue). After that, a fourth sheet containing some fixing material is printed over the photo which makes it durable.
Quality is much better than comparable inkjet+photo paper solutions. But it's really expensive...
I'm a thirtysomething, so not a teenager. But at least amongst my peers in my social circle, I've seen more and more iPhones replacing Androids not because of iMessage, but because of the Apple Watch. Seems like the Apple Watch is the must-have gadget + fashion accessory these days.
AntiDRM is Hydra...

Cut off one head, 100 grow back. All these efforts by copyright maximalist do is free recruitment for the Anti-Copyright crowd

Every enforcement action they make, stronger the animosity towards copyright grows, their short term gains, will prove to be their downfall
> My take from reading that is in 2016 there was practical collision attacks demonstrated

No such thing happened.

You're likely referring to this paper quoted in Wikipedia:
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/374.pdf

This is 1. not about SHA256, but about the truncated sha2 algorithms and, more important, 2. it's an attack on reduced-round versions of these algorithms.
That's a common thing in cryptoanalysis to do. You're basically saying "we have no way of attacking the full algorithm, so let's build a version which is much less secure and try to attack that". That's a valid thing to do for research purposes, but it needs to be interpreted correctly. "I can break this massively weaker version of the algorithm" is very different from "I have shown a practical attack on the real algorithm".
So you're saying he also had to document his code? Maybe make a pull request.

Every developer is responsible for what goes into his project, including dependencies. When a developer wants to update a dependency, he is responsible for the appropriateness of the update. In order to get an idea, he should audit the changes. For personal code, such an audit may constitute of a quick skim to determine that nothing breaks. For production code, it may also include a security audit.

When a dependency that used to do X now does Y and therefore breaks your stuff, you are the one responsible for dealing with it. The author disclaimed any warranty and any fitness of purpose for his project, and whether his intentions make sense or not is of no consequence.

My point was that there is no such thing as "malicious code". Code is code, and it's your responsibility to determine whether it fits the context. That someone put it out there with an MIT license means the responsibility is yours.

P.S. Ata nishma bachur magniv, lama macharta et ha'autobus? OK, ro'e she'ata gar be-Sverige achshav (Scandinavia ze ha'chalom sheli) az mevin.
>I think that this is a great way to cover up the problem with the wave of people disabled by Long Covid falling out of the work force.

I must have missed the memo about the hoards of workers being disabled by long covid. Can you link me to it?
> But we know how that goes and nobody actually will care about the scooter enough to return or take care of it.

Looking at countries like the Netherlands this is not true. Train stations have rentable bikes which are always available in sufficient quantities.

> So what do we do? Uber-Tesla-Subway pods. I call it by phone, it shows up to my house, either transfers me or lets me dock with the subway and then brings me the last mile just to leave me there for the next thing it has to do.

Individual 'pods' will just never be a sufficiently scalable & ecologically friendly solution for any real city. There's just no way that having several hundred kilos of metal & plastic per individual, along with the space requirements (esp for safety) works.

On the other hand, autonomous & shared 'cars' could replace individual vehicles for hauling / transporting as peak usage would be much lower than for transit.
Doesn’t the NFT and crypto bubble hurt normal people when it bursts?

At least with commodity speculation, you potentially have some overpriced goods, here you literally have some nothing.

I really like the efficiency and utility of cryptocurrency but I suspect it will all be set back decades, there will likely be efforts to outright ban/outlaw it after the crash.
Not death-counts, but definitely data about the deaths yes. So detailed reasons for the death, specifics about the death that may be pertinent, their covid history prior to the death, how covid did or didn't affect their behavior that may have caused the death, etc.

Example: Are we keeping track of all the people that skipped a routine test because of covid lockdowns? And then, is there a subsequent record of that fact linked to every covid case of death? Or are we stuck modelling the correlation/overlap of those two data points because we track those statistics across populations separately?
Honestly I had a number of quite expensive sessions with a therapist, and the main benefit I got from them was the message "how you feel is almost completely down to your physical state". This site could have been made personally for me. It doesn't replace the therapy, because in the beforetimes I would simply have not taken the message seriously without hours of someone hitting me over the head with it - but the site could have been tailor-made for me, and with it I could have skipped maybe half the sessions.