skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're missing the forest through the trees.

The technical mechanism of 'Blockchain' might be a novel artifact of the definition of an NFT - but it does not matter.

You're talking about the 'type of paper the deed to the house was written on'.

We don't care about the 'technology used to make the deed' - we care about the implications, i.e. ownership of what, how, when etc..

An NFT is indirectly implied to be 'ownership' of something, but in reality, it's simply 'ownership of the NFT' itself really.

Any legal or popular control over the 'digital content' has nothing to do with NFTs, it's just 'by implication' and has no real social or legal basis.

As such, the 'piece of paper' is a decent analogy.

"It's a record, that references something; you own the record itself, but it means absolutely nothing beyond that".

If you want to think you're cool from owning that, that's cool, or not, or whatever.

It's a good analogy.
Its interesting how different languages have evolved, so Inuit have many words for snow because this highlights area's of concern or importance for them. So the fact these language differentiations exist in Indian and Chinese language, highlights an area of concern or importance for them.

In Iceland, surnames use the fathers firstname and sson for son and dotir for daughter, to highlight the relationship in an otherwise small community. Whether that cultural habit is to reduce the incidence of inbreeding I've yet to find out, but it makes me wonder. History and culture gives away a lot of metadata.
I specced my T420 freshman year of college but had a budget from my parents so I skipped out on getting the upgraded LCD panel in exchange for the i7 CPU. That laptop lasted me a couple years until I grabbed a tablet X61 and then a X200 for taking notes towards the end of college. I'm now back to my T420 and have spent a little but of time upgrading things the drives, ram, wlan card, downgrading to a smaller 6 cell battery, and doing the ivyrain bios. I really regret going for the cheaper panel as upgrading to a 1600x900 is not a simple process and the cost is halfway to just buying something modern. My girlfriend was going to give me her old Lenovo Flex 14 when she got MacBook but she loves it more than the MacBook and I'm not really a fan of either laptops. I love my old T420 but I'm stuck between spending money on sentimental hardware or just buying something newer.
> One extremely common phenomenon when discussing issues surrounding blockchain-based technologies is that proponents will often switch between discussing the theoretical implementations of these ecosystems and discussing the ecosystems we have today as it suits their argument.

This is an endemic problem in crypto spaces. The biggest example I see regularly is deflecting concerns about environmental impact by stating they'll move away from proof of work any day now, so it's no big deal.

Maybe you will, maybe you won't, but until you have, you haven't.
Unless I'm mistaken, we'd need to settle on a "default" piece size[1] if we were to have automatic upgrading in a client. I learned recently[2] that there's no standard set by the protocol, so Client A might choose a 16KiB piece size, and Client B might take the same files and choose a 64KiB piece size, resulting in two different hashes (v1 or v2!) and thus two peer pools for the same file set.

1. https://stackoverflow.com/a/65299426/2700296

2. https://github.com/webtorrent/magnet-uri/pull/43#issuecommen...
I talked to a lawyer, and it just wasn't worth going after them for this amount. I wrote it off as a valuable lesson and went to make more money elsewhere.
Milan has no problem with trash

I also don’t think that this “benaltrismo” is useful :)
hahahaha when I saw that picture I immediately realized that this was just that a project but not real world use. Side note, I do love how much flexibility laptops that are not Mac have. Ive been using System76 laptops/desktops for a while, and I LOVE them and the options and upgrades you can make (I do not work for System) lol.
Well then, can you hold off on your bitcoins until the no-carbon future is here please? Today all the carbon dioxide it's putting into the atmosphere is making the planet I live on hotter.
Yea, a double-linked list of lines or what some call a gap-buffer.
And how to display it all is another big part.
> No one can have the same piece of paper without having that actual paper

You seem to have missed what the analogy is: The piece of paper is the blockchain record, the thing that can be exchanged with other people, not the art or whatever at the end of it (hence why a URL on the paper was mentioned).

It's a great explanation for non-technical people.
You can prove that you own it (the NFT, not something else), which could be used for authentication systems. You could rent/lend it out, could also be used for subscriptions or whatever. Or you could sell it.

Basically, imagine a certificate you have on your computer, except it's publicly known, then imagine use cases based on that.
Sure, they pray on the emotional need of their audience to "own the libs". Little use to deny that. But it is not a position you can engage with and win anything.

> Again the first sentence is false. And more importantly, the beliefs like "flat-earther", "NASA is a hoax", "chemtrails", "antivaxxer", etc. are anything but irrelevant.

They are irrelevant aside from being a boogeyman. Even combined you are probably talking about a very small group, although I would explicitly exclude antivaxxer here because it is another quality. I am vaccinated but against mandates and have been called antivaxxer, so you have only grown opposition. I see the opposition not holding people to account because their eyes are focused on a group that does not have the tiniest inch of political influence and therefore cannot be responsible for much in society anyway. Antivaxxer are also no authoritarians, they argue for the opposite.

I don't think they cause the distrust, the distrust is caused in how you engage with them. While the play of politics usually suggest that you should not engage with unhappy people (inhuman, I know), you conduct with them is relevant. I don't believe people blaming anitvaxxers are capable of holding leadership to account because they waste their energy in criticising people that don't have influence on policy. It would be foolish to align myself here, I don't need and image of an enemy.

I am not from the US and mostly align with the democrat party, which is still very conservative from my point of view. But a few years ago I understood the objection many US conservatives harbor. And they are just as guilty of the same thing. In the Obama years many of his initiatives were blocked out of pure spite, no factual discussion could have changed that. I disliked them doing that only to learn that this is the usual conduct between political camps. But you are just making yourself a tool of the other political side. Perhaps better than other blind followers they have, but not by much for constructive dialogue.
Cranelift (a code generator, similar to LLVM, but more lightweight)
Thankfully, as has been proven by non-modern medicine, that 5g of Taurine every day has zero side effects.
Yup lol that’s what teaches me that you need to do test driven development.
I don't know if it is easy but it is certainly expensive (I see people paying $200 to create an NFT.)
I've seriously considered removing some of the older semi-popular projects from my github solely because I would be embarrassed to show them to a prospective employer, or even other developers.

In the end I think it's actually kind of fun to look back through the code though, and think "surely I should have known about X back then... Why didn't I just do that instead."
Total B.S. To those stating China’s strict lockdown policy somehow makes this believable- lockdowns are in response to COVID. If there are still COVID cases triggering lockdowns, there is still COVID out there causing death.
I have a Ultra dock for a long time now... And I know that if I ever upgrade from T460 to the T470 will be the last model for quite some time. This is the last one that fits onto my existing docking station. I must say that I prefer mechanical docks over USB/TB and other types.
correct

they come from this level of passion for perfection
I just want to say that interoperability of assets makes me think of Nintendo's Amiibo system. They're little statuettes with RFID tags in the base which can be scanned by various consoles and unlocks a lot of rewards. These rewards are often tied to the specific character in question.

As an example, I have the Twilight Princess Link Amiibo. In most games it gives some reward related to The Legend of Zelda in general. When I scanned it in "Yoshi's Woolly World" for the Wii U it unlocked a Yoshi looking like Link, as would any Zelda themed Amiibo. When I scanned it in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the Switch it instead unlocked Epona, Link's horse featured in many games, including Twilight Princess. Which can only be unlocked by that specific Amiibo and no other Zelda ones.

Of course, these tags are not unique and can quite easily be cloned.
A 3090 is $2300 right now, even paying the scalper tax.

How much M1 MacBook Pro is that getting you?

That said, I do wish the M1 GPU could game; my downtime hobby is the only thing stopping me from buying one.
It's always the same problem: this technology is not recognized by any country, which makes it completely pointless. Just like bitcoin: no country will attempt to prevent your coins from being stolen, and no country will attempt to regulate bitcoin to avoid volatility.

It's weird how technologists build things without ever researching the philosophical concepts understood by humans, not just machines and algorithms.

That's the real dystopia: when technology is not understood by humans, it becomes useless. The success of computing was about making computers usable by non programmer. I guess the new trend is programmers trying to scam non-programmers.
OCaml Multicore merged upstream
If 51% of the militants are allied with four factions (a la Libyan civil war) then you also only need to convince a 'handful' of people. But I think this also ignores that the factions and mining pools themselves are made of people with their own interest, including that of maintaining the value of their bitcoin by not sabotaging the entire system.
If they had the foresight to spend the money on the bigger display, they are probably just fine. It's not Rentina quality but it's good enough for something to use at home for non-work.
Getting money from a greater fool is an important application for lesser fools.
Rebuilding an official or unofficial package on Arch is so refreshingly simple. On Debian or Ubuntu, it seems significantly harder.

Arch is basically superior to Gentoo for me in that respect. Things are mostly binary, except when I choose to build from source. For someone who doesn't want to tweak compile-time flags, it's a good distro.
The best thing is when you replace some shitty code with your own wonderful well-architected code…which causes a bug.
VW and Toyota take aim at Elon Musk’s Tesla with $170B investment in EVs
Never mind, just figured out what you're doing here - reading your comment history, you're basically Hackernews' resident quack doctor giving dangerous, unscientific advise.
Good luck with that.
Thank you for these great resources.
What if you were a journalist in Crimea and wanted to provide content behind a paywall like Substack or Patreon?
> Most Asians exercise much more, eat healthier, AND smoke and drink less.

Tobacco consumption in Asia is incredibly high: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_consumption_by_country
We'll hold off on our bitcoins if you hold off on your football stadiums and christmas lights. Deal?
Not a big NFT fan, but this thread is weak. NFTs do try to solve the very real problem of indicating ownership of a purely digital item. Not my preferred way of solving the problem but whatever.

A lot of these critiques betray discomfort with abstraction.
sure but is that not how a browser works?

for example to add bootstrap to a site you import like this

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.1.3/dist/js/bootstr..." integrity="sha384-ka7Sk0Gln4gmtz2MlQnikT1wXgYsOg+OMhuP+IlRH9sENBO0LRn5q+8nbTov4+1p" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

which is exactly the same as deno's "loads random files from random URLs"
UK's plant export IT system only works with Internet Explorer
Not to be confused with the programming language Simula 1, an important milestone in PL history that led to the birth of OO.
Cars are a bad option for long-range transportation anyway. I'm not convinced at all by this argument.
Whether the healthcare system "collapses" has to do with how hard it actually tries. We did get reports early on that the crematoriums were working far more than usual.
Well that's the thing, for profit health care requires making cuts to maintain profit. That's why it's a bad idea.

You can't just say you can't close this hospital, you have to find a way to pay the bills on it.
It's equally frustrating how a certain class of people, i.e. rabid anti-car cyclists, only read publications within their bubble that are equally anti-car, while constantly throwing shade at any country that is not the paradise Netherlands. I encourage you to take that next step: only commenting on these type of stories within your bubble.
Furthermore, a lot of employers self-fund and use the insurance company only for management and possibly secondary insurance.
> Honestly the project would be better off forked.

I agree. It was an irresponsible prank. But Microsoft didn't fork the projects. They hijacked his digital identity on two of their platforms, instead. I find that much disconcerting than what this one maintainer did.
A big shoutout to the author to include the Nokogiri installation "experience"... :D <3

Well done!
That built in linter leaves a lot to be desired. If you're a big big fan of being told how your code should be formatted, then it's a good fit. however, if you're the slightest bit opinionated, you still have to implement ESLint and jump through those hoops.
> Basically, imagine a certificate you have on your computer, except it's publicly known, then imagine use cases based on that.

We have that?

https://pgp.mit.edu/

https://github.com/ceejayoz.keys
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It can be quite crippling - I was distressingly oh-god-snatch-your-children-away-from-the-monster thin until about the age of 15, and I have to be constantly paying attention to catch hunger before I lose a misery-wracked evening to lying unable to move. It's not as bad as it is for the people who don't feel pain, but taking manual control of bodily functions is not something to be done lightly. (Huel/Soylent etc are an absolute godsend.)
DMARC is just a TXT record. Which DNS server doesn't support TXT records out of the box?
I sometimes call out my CFO at my company who still works on the codebase(very Spaghettis like).
He is not a trained programmer but his code runs the company and we are the leaders in our industry. He apologises for his older work but without it I guess the company may not have existed in it current form.
The also board thinks the codebase is a potential liability since it all Coldfusion.
Elementary, my dear Watson.

While the question seems to strongly imply that "chicken" is meant to refer to the hatched animal (which is also the most commonly accepted interpretation) - it does not spell that out. Thus it's not perfectly clear which interpretations may be used.

Now, if we do allow alternate interpretations of the premise, then the egg still came first. Because dinosaurs laid eggs - and that was a long time before the first chicken ovum ever got fertilized.

But if we disallow alternate interpretations and clarify that within the context of this question "chicken" has to refer to the hatched animal - then your answer is simply no longer valid.

Well, let's ignore all that. Let's define our premise such, that:
A) fertilized ovums ARE chickens
B) fertilized ovums are NOT eggs
and answer the question based on those assumptions.

The first problem with your argument is, that it's impossible to find a logical, internally consistent definition of "chicken", that does INCLUDE the fertilized ovum, while at the same time EXCLUDING the egg.
There's no way, the ovum is a chicken - stops being a chicken while an egg - and becomes a chicken again. Every definition that does include the fertilized ovum will also include the egg.
So, based on our assumptions A) and B), we can deduce:
C) eggs ARE chickens

But if eggs are chickens, then the question "the egg OR the chicken" no longer makes any sense - and no correct answer can exist.
Therefore, your provided answer cannot possibly be correct either.

Thus, within this set of assumptions A) and B) - the question becomes meaningless, and can't be answered either way.

P.S.: you are aware, that the "ovum" is more commonly called "egg cell"? ;)
Everyone knew this was going to happen as soon as the sale was announced. Say what you want about IBM, for decades it was a company run by and for engineers, which meant that things like quality and tolerances were important product requirements, and they sold it to an entity essentially created to do acquisitions of IBM IP based out of China so it could be manufactured more cheaply. Lenovo did exactly what every expected, and it's honestly a miracle that modern Thinkpads are as good as they are, because they still stand neck and neck with Dell, where by all expectations they should be scraping the barrel.
Regardless of the domain: classes with And or Or in them are at the very least a codesmell. Because the name even implies it does more than one thing (SRP)
Remember that your repos and commits are dated. If someone looks at code that old... what they see is a trend of improvement.
Your comment boils down to "Bitcoin is not a problem now, because someday in the future we'll solve this whole clean energy problem and fix global warming." Do you not see how crazy you sound?
If you live in a region where bike infrastructure is underfunded, and car infrastructure is overfunded, it’s probable that’s because cycling is viewed as a recreational activity in your area and thus undeserving of tax dollars compared to ‘essential’ car travel.

If you disagree with that, (and live in a democracy) let someone know! Find out who controls the infrastructure spending in your area and call/email them.
Zynga was still alive and worth nearly 13B?!!
If you're feeling this pain your colleagues are as well. Small improvements in this area are yeoman's work that's often appreciated by peers, if not management. When I've been in a rut making baby steps in tooling has helped get me moving again.
Work is not your god
Given that the average car spends 95% of its lifetime being parked, I don't think this is as big of an issue as you make it out to be.
Just look north. Canadians are basically the same people, eat the same diet, but they have free health care, and live 3-4 years longer on average.

Maybe you want to control for the cold weather too?
China has pretty propaganda-heavy testing infrastructure - they do heavily publicised one-off mass testing of entire cities which the state media points to as proof of their superiority over other countries which aren't doing that, but outside of that testing appears to be extremely questionable. They've had pretty astounding incidents like not testing people hospitalized with Covid symptoms in the one province which had known, uncontrolled community spread at the time at a point when Western countries (or at least the UK) were systematically testing anyone who went near a hospital. And of course testing entire cities is going to miss recently infected people and doesn't help find cases outside the city boundary, which is likely more common than they let on...
When it's written by someone else, I start out assuming it's not shit at all, and I simply don't understand it yet. So I ask the person who wrote it (if available), and often they tell me it was a hack and please fix it.
I'd be interested to hear the ages of people belittling /r/antiwork

It seems to me that many are blind to the fact that there's generations of people coming through who are getting dudded on the "work hard and you'll at least be comfortable" agreement of previous generations.

Instead they're learning that they'll work hard and that's all they'll do until they die.

Wage stagnation, sky-rocketing cost of living, deteriorating working conditions, ever increasing requirements for jobs, unpaid internships, wage theft, rising inequality, astronomical housing costs in large chunks of the western world. "Once in a lifetime" economic meltdowns happening every 10 years (and nobody getting nailed for it) on a dying planet with clowns at the helm.

If they're lucky they'll get some of the wealth when their parents die.

They've been invited to play a game of Monopoly that's 98% complete and people wonder why they're not overjoyed to be playing all the while listening to older generations to just march on in with your resume and demand to speak to the manager about a job

I'm surprised they haven't burned it all to the ground. Maybe one day they will.
He was granted a visa to enter Australia, and then they suddenly canceled his visa. This stinks of politics.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/djokovic-courts-controv...
The app thing is very true and so ridiculous, I at one point contracted for a health insurance company (with a team of 10 people) for over a year working on an app that never saw the light of day.

It was essentially a calorie and exercise tracker that also displayed your health insurance info, absolutely nothing special compared to fitness apps already out there, but millions of dollars down the drain.
All the time in Southern California you see police helicopters circling around. There was that time I read this

http://thepricker.synthasite.com/

on the plane from JFK to LAX and was feeling paranoid and it seemed like one of the helicopters was following me around everywhere I went.

It's natural that somebody would want to "reach out and touch" one of these annoying insects and periodically people laser police helicopters. It is always a bad idea because if you do that then they really will swoop down on you and take you away.
Why not instead someone just market a replacement keyboard for one of the more popular laptops? It sounds as though modern keyboards are the primary pain point for newer laptops.

(Or if a 3rd party had marketed an inexpensive replacement power-brick for the author's 2001 Apple iBook perhaps he would still be using it.)
Ironically, the company that bought µTorrent was BitTorrent, Inc[1]. They're the geniuses also responsible for forking IPFS, renaming it to "BTFS", and not acknowledging IPFS as an upstream in any way[2].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainberry,_Inc.

2. https://twitter.com/juanbenet/status/1250634833258143744
>So I'm curious how they got enough games to draw solid conclusions from.

Yes there was. There was a paper by a statistician based on data of officially rated chess players (that would include semi-pro and pro players), the conclusions are hard to argue with.

The lack of female players in top chess is mainly due to very small pool of players.

Other conclusion is that there is a bias against women in chess and it causes many female players to drop off, resulting in only the 'mentally strongest' to keep on playing. Ergo the average female player in rated chess has higher rating than average male player.