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Hey HN community! I’m excited to showcase an app I helped build during the ETHDenver Hackathon last week. It’s called submarine.me and it lets anyone—technical or not—upload private, IPFS-backed content that they can lock behind an NFT with a simple share link. Anyone with the link can prove they own the NFT in question and unlock the media.

Full disclosure, this app was built under the Pinata (https://pinata.cloud) banner, but being able to bring it to life during a hackathon was an incredible experience. The idea stemmed from the original release of a feature Pinata calls Submarine. We rolled this feature out last year, and it let people upload media to private storage nodes, generate IPFS content identifiers for verifiability, and share that content with a selective audience. The problem was that individuals and communities wanted to have more complex mechanisms and automation for sharing the media. They didn’t want to have to manually generate a link to the content.

For developers, this was no problem. They could write code and implement their own solutions to programmatically generate access tokens for the locked content based on the criteria they set. For non-technical creators, this was a non-starter. We believe submarine.me solves that.

Creators simply have to choose how they’d like their media to be unlocked (currently submarine.me only supports NFT unlocking, but more mechanisms will be rolling out soon), provide preview data about the locked media, then upload the media that should be private. When they do so, a simple link is generated. These creators can then safely share that link on Twitter, Discord, Telegram, or anywhere else they want, knowing that unauthorized people will not be able to unlock the content.

For those that are trying to retrieve the media, the experience is dead simple. Go to the link, sign a message verifying control of the Ethereum wallet that holds the NFT, and if they do, in fact, have the NFT in their wallet, the private media is returned. If they don’t have the NFT, they are blocked.

Here is a demo video of submarine.me in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhT4Xqn1tYI

I know the Hacker News community prefers to be able to experiment with apps on Show HN without having to sign in or subscribe, but this app is directly linked to existing Pinata accounts. So to use it, you will have to have a Pinata Professional Plan account.

Looking forward to hearing everyone’s thoughts!
Yeah, it feels like SotC was a big influence on this game; the article mentions that Miyazaki was inspired to go into video games from Ico by the same studio that did SotC, and Ico itself also has this feeling of an old, empty, fallen empire about itself.

Actually, most of From Software's Soulslike games have that atmosphere. DS3 is a cyclic world in one of its last cycles, society no longer exists as such and all that is left is ghostly and undead remnants. Bloodborne takes place in a city and area where the great heroes from back in the day have long gone, it's barely holding together. Sekiro is an old society that is still active, but war-torn. And old. Probably the least dilapidated of the three.
Though these startup founders are both directly and indirectly funded by the power structures (investment firms, think tanks, the government) maintained by these Ivy League school graduates.

Think how all these startups are getting loads of "trickled-down" money from the Fed's money printer. Look at the list of chairs of the Federal Reserve and most of them are from prestigious Ivy League schools, you get what I mean.
Colonization is kind of a spinoff.
> Sweden which has around 1.7x the deaths per million as Canada?

Also, Sweden which will have far fewer deaths and other damages due to 'collateral damage' from lockdowns.

With regard to your claim of bank accounts not having been frozen, that goes against most of the "evidence" I've seen as well as against what the deputy prime minister said [1], as well as against Trudeau's claims.

I would think twice before siding with the Trudeau regime, they will not go down in history as an example of Canada's vibrant democratic tradition.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385
I love this. I thought about creating a site (essentially a book tracker with upcoming release dates for series or new books; never created it, please ping me if you do, I’d love such a site) and something like this was how I envisioned it paying for itself.
> What do you think those people will say if the discriminated group sets up structures that further reinforce their success in succeeding generations?

"Congratulations on achieving the American Dream."

The NAACP already exists. What you're describing as a nightmare scenario is basically the way this has been done historically in America. It's part of the "rugged individualism" mythology that a group that feels marginalized organizes to take care of itself.
Studying to pass the SAT is gaming the system if ideally we want well-rounded, whole people to be the elite leadership in the future. Not that including extracurriculars doesn't weight admissions towards the children of current elites. But the idea is that multiple metrics cancel out the biases of the individual metrics. And I understand some people are okay with elite education and others think that is itself the problem though.
to me it seems that it's not such an unpopular war in Russia, mostly because of propaganda on TV, but still, not enough people are against Putin.
The people located at the adjusted location might complain about that?
Intel Evolution of the Transistor Innovation, Fun Trip Down Silicon Memory Lane
Liberals need to start speaking out against the 'progressives' that have commandeered their ideology in the public eye or I emphatically agree with your ending to the movement. My worry is what comes next, the people preying on american liberals aren't going to die with them.
>I would evaluate ads vs other channels like sales.

This is probably the best advice when it comes to this specific topic; however, there are some other options which I still suggest you play in (see below).

>Ads are ruthless in the early stages unless you have a truly unique product/service and can run Google Ads.

There are entire companies that exist solely to dominate search results for branded and non-branded search terms related to businesses that already have product in market. You're NOT going to compete with companies spending multiple millions of dollars a month in Paid Search.

What you can do, however, is work on dominating Organic Search results via SEO. While these same companies are competing with best-practices in SEO, they cannot win with investment alone. You too can follow the same best practices and potentially get the search engines to pay attention to you too. If you can land on the first page of results, you have a real shot.
Isn’t this a game, not a video game? I thought video games used a video screen, instead of a static setup. But cool anyway!
The Inuit dont use gas for heating, its pretty optional if you wear enough clothing indoors.
Intel, AMD, Arm, and Others Collaborate on Universal Chiplet Interconnect
I've been intensively using Orgmode for a year and a half (wrote my thesis in it) and then abandoned it to switch to Markdown.

Orgmode quickly turns into not-quite-plaintext with humanly impossible to read and very distracting data structs stuck inside the text. I think these were called "Properties"?

For me the beauty of plain-text is that it can be read and written in any Editor without needing syntax highlighting. Here Orgmode fails for me, as I found it unreadable and unusable without an Emacs-esque toolkit.
Yes. Those people tend to also be happiest with each of these areas and have coaching plans with their managers given they are also early in career. Unhappiest are the senior and principal talent, but not by much more.
I hated BoTW, would I also hate Elden Ring?
People are required to spend 2 weeks in isolation before meeting in person without the table thingy. So he is litteraly that afraid of omicron. His whole shtick is low grade USSR style psychops that west keeps falling for. It seems only Ukrainians are ballsy enough to call his bluff.
Its not about what's written. Its about the intention behind this.
Companies like to frame this as "you were duly compensated via the pay you received while employed". I disagree with that sentiment.
A diverse level of incompleteness you mean. Nothing comparable to Qt exists.
They're capable and are therefore oppressive.
“If the Western Democracies stand together in strict adherence to the principles of the United Nations charter, their influence for furthering these principles will be immense and no one is likely to molest them,” Churchill remarked in his Iron Curtain speech. “If however they become divided or falter in their duty and if these all-important years are allowed to slip away then indeed catastrophe may overwhelm us all.”

Interesting thought, this goes way beyond Europe and Russia.
Good question. So as I see it: something that's about generative
behaviours. For example: The rules that describe the dynamics of
generative systems like Collatz (n%2==0 ? n' = n/2 : n'=3*n+1)
there's specific integers that make it work while for a Lorenz
attractor you'd have three floats that could take different initial
values. That would be a conversation about "meta-dynamics".

Or maybe, what changes are behind systems that change?
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anybill is a Germany-based platform providing digital receipts at the checkout.
Why are we paying digitally but still printing paper receipts?
We are a young, fast-growing startup with over 25 employees, digitalizing the European shopping experience.

Tech stack: Vue.js, Nuxt.js
Job description: https://techreach-gmbh.jobs.personio.de/job/539234
Is there any plan to introduce human review into the process? I imagine a company that had a human review a diff of each package release prior to approval could make a ton of money from the enterprise market.
You have a lawyer right? Ask your lawyer.
Ok with such a budget - you can get 15 clicks, you won't have enough data to support your hypothesis.

Paid advertising should only work when you already have data on your LTV, payback and cohorts.

You can literally get hundreds of thousands of impressions by looking at your audience, finding similar attributes and then posting to niche:
- Reddits
- Facebook groups
- Telegram communities
etc.

Best thing is, its actually free.
It's a building legislation like any other. We don't compensate developers for having to follow building codes. It's a cost of doing business.
https://mfa.gov.ua

Maybe too many people are trying to access it?
Energy inflation rate in the EU hits 27% in Jan 2022
The git diff process and conflict process really goes off the rails at times, and I have never figured that out. Modify one line in a file, and add one new line two lines after that modification, and the git diff is two 40 line chunks with some common lines, a bunch of additions, and a bunch of deletions.

Really? One new added line, and one delete/add two lines above it.

it usually works fine, it really does, but when it messes up, it really messes up big time. As long as it doesn't create a conflict, you just shrug and move on, but when it does create a conflict, holy-moley!
It's a business - you don't know what their profit margin is. Presumably there are many who will advocate burdening developers with the cost of their own preservation aspirations while, at the same time, lamenting the lack of affordable housing due to the high cost of development.
Countries with long intertangled histories often have a lot of cultural similarities as well as deep national grudges. If you remove the people from the national grudges, they tend to get along.
McFly – fly through your shell history
What is this crap??
Is the investor from Russia?
Sandbags and soldiers as Ukraine leader gives interview under siege
They never said they died. I remember reading something on the line of "we had no communications since and assume they are probably dead".
I think it's just fine as it. The paddle gets smaller and the ball gets faster so it becomes more challenging to do that.
Well now you have two problems.

With a personal assistant, you'll need to provide very detailed instructions for success. The list of items you list for your PA will take roughly the same amount of time as actually just doing the work.

Drycleaning, handling returns, that stuff is easy. But if you're like me, that's only 10% of what you need to get done.

I'm wired similarly, have tried PAs, and I try to use services that have a PA aspect to them. (StichFix, Uber, wedding coordinator) -But unless you're putting in the work to really get value and automate the things you need a PA for, you'll find yourself just shifting the boring tasks to dealing with the PA, and shift the problem.
The roof is one of the most important parts of a property and to get it installed or repaired it’s good to get the job done by professionals. Roofing services in Camden are the most qualified roofing experts. They can handle all your roofing requirements from installation to repair.
Decades of the West spoonfeeding dictators, and other "our bastards" after the collapse of USSR came back to roost.

The War on Error has made the West completely oblivious to the number of very big elephants in the room while politicians were playing the War on Error as if it was some kind of CounterStrike game, and then wasted time on refugee crisis, Trump, Brexit, and various other piss contests.
It is interesting that most here say they have not noticed this, when the caste system is pervasive in the US.I guess this is because it is not as egregious as it used to be, and this makes everyone feel better.

Any Indian that comes to mind, and you could bet that he/she is from an upper caste. It is hidden only because it is sort of accepted, and thats not a good thing.
Source makes greenhouses smarter to secure the future of food supply
When I used Evernote and my notes were larger in scale, I mostly used the modification time to figure out how long a particular note was lying around without updates—so abandoned-forgotten projects and such stuff, basically tracking how much I actually use the notes.

(Evernote went to shit over the years, so don't take this as an endorsement.)

Sometimes it's also useful to figure out what I was doing when writing a note, by placing the time among my other activities. This gives some context for the thoughts.

Now that I migrated to outlines and the notes are much more granular, plus I started making more of them—they can often serve as a timestamped log of my day. When did I eat the breakfast—so I can put the dinner in the stomach before it begins an acid-fest? Well, I logged watching an episode of the series during the breakfast, so the creation time tells me the answer.

I'm scatterbrained, okay. Or rather, the notes are part of my ‘brain’ now.

In fact, I do miss granular times in other logs of my activity—ironically, in regard to privacy. I watched a video on a particular topic around last summer, and would like to find it now—but YT's ‘watch history’ is crude and just leafing through all of it is infeasible. (Actually, perhaps I should look into the ‘takeout’ dumps of activity for the timestamps, and make a list of the vids in a better format.)
While that's at least "fair" in an immediate monetary sense, it's still a bad deal at the end of the day. You've now been out of your industry for a year when you go back and your value has dropped as a result.
IPFS is decentralized storage. I really don't get this concept of paying someone to "decentralize" your storage when if you just want someone to pin it then there are plenty of VPS providers that provide significantly more bandwidth for less. Just setup rclone and mount a cloud drive.
The debate is about what standards to set. The people who do well at standardized tests and GPA think those should be the metrics by which admissions are judged. Harvard has other ideas.
The idea that an all-out nuclear war will trigger a civilization-ending nuclear winter has been on shaky ground for a while now. It appears the likelihood of it happening to such a degree was based on the political/idealist desire to reduce the nuclear stockpile. [1][2]

For a more realistic view of nuclear war and its survivability, check out [2] (with a foreword by Edward Teller and author's note by Eugene Wigner of Wigner's friend fame).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_winter#Criticism_and_d...
[2] Kearny, C. Nuclear war survival skills
Okay if I raise my eyebrows my ears come along for the ride.. but I can move my eyebrows without the ears if I think of it as moving my forehead.. so to isolate the ears only I need to lock the eyebrows at max up or down and try and wiggle them and see how it feels..
Git is barely useable by technical people.

Git would be a byzantine disaster for 'everyone else'.

The graph and abstractions involved introduce enormous unnecessary complexity.

Now, 'historical changes for everyone' - yes.

But not Git. Git is very powerful, but ultimately a questionably valuable product in many cases overall. And we've now settled on it, so it's a bit difficult to displace.
Unmaintained: Package has not been updated in more than a year and may be unmaintained. Problems with the package may go unaddressed.

Packages can be finished and do everything they set out to do. The fact they haven't been updated in a while can be a measure of high quality as much as it can be a sign of low quality.
In the cases cited in the article, I strongly suspect “zero decimal places of percentage” is sufficient to show discrepancies (that discrepancies of full percentage point or more will be present, given the admissions rate for one group changed from 73% to under 50%).
Quite smart. No perpetual motion machine here. This forward differentiation method is not as powerful as the backward one, it does not give you the gradient of a function. Instead, you choose a direction, and it gives you the derivative along that direction. You could essentially get that by “bump and recalc”, at the cost of an additional function evaluation. I even doubt this comes at a cheaper compute cost than the brute force bump and recalculate.

How about the stochastic gradient descent, if you don’t know the gradient? Well, you know the sign of the directional derivative, so you know which way is up and which is down. At each step you pick a random direction, and you move down along it. That’s it.

Edit: I just implemented this descent algorithm, let’s call it Random Direction Descent. I was sure that the gradient descent outperforms it more and more for higher and higher dimensions. The exact oposite happens: this one outperforms the gradient descent, and the higher dimension, the more. This is a huge surprise for me. This descent algorithm might revolutionize ML.
But does it leak? Is it any different than any other social network? It's well known that big networks simply sell your data if you pay handsomely. Facebook does that on a large scale, even including partial messages content. Heck, it was recently confirmed that Messenger was used to coordinate Chechen's attack recently. Does it make FB compromised by Russia? How one even compare these networks?

Why don't you call Messenger an asset? Or google maps after recent revelations (that may as well be bullshit) that it was used to coordinate bombings?
Miyazaki games are always unfair instakill situations :)
> They have almost the military power of the US

I thought so too, until I heard their economy is as big as the Benelux. Then I though, how can they be a "world power"?

I looked at military spending:

US: 778 bn
China: 252 bn
India: 72.9 bn
Russia: 61.7
UK: 59.2

So in other words, they spend about the same as UK, and 12x less than US alone.

They are still riding the old Soviet days. We believe their military is a world power, they (probably) believe their military is a world power. Until you look at the actual numbers. Their tanks are Soviet, their planes and helis are Soviet, their walkie-talkies are customer products. Their entire nuclear arsenal is inherited from the Soviets. It's all old, and they don't have the budget for a modern big army.

That might als explain why they are struggling so much in Ukraine.
Polestar O2 electric roadster comes with a DRONE to film journeys
Mullvad instant reconnect macOS and Mallware blocking
The latest Mullvad version for macOS (2022.1) now instantly reconnects after awaking from sleep. Malware blocking is added on top of tracking and add blocking using a DNS list. And multi-hop is now supported for WireGuard.
Is creating a purely merit-based institution really an identity policy though? I see it as an identity-blind policy, unless you define identity to include merit.
But didn't the term originally come from academia? I'd be curious to know about the actual etymology here.

It's not uncommon for words to have a technical meaning and a colloquial one. I don't see HN getting upset that "theory" is used differently by those awful academics compared to the common man.
> Can I run multiple A/B tests at a time? Yes! In fact, we recommend running many experiments in parallel in your application

Isn't this a bad practice in general? Not only you split your (potentially limited) sample count, but it is very unlikely that there is ZERO interaction between A/B tests. Even if you test something on one page and another thing on a different page, there might be some interaction between the two changes.
From the article:

"Among the EU Member States, Belgium (67%) and the Netherlands (58%) registered the highest energy inflation rates in January 2022, followed by Lithuania (43%), Estonia (41%) and Greece (40%). At the other end, the energy inflation rate was 0% in Malta, with Croatia and Portugal following, both with 12%."

The UK is not listed as it is no longer part of the EU. However, this BBC report [1] states:

"[For the UK] Electricity and gas bills for a typical household will go up by £693 a year in April, a 54% increase."

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58090533
Ask HN: Is surviving nuclear war via Starship bomb shelters in space feasible?
And if so, wouldn't this be better than colonizing Mars to ensure the survival of the human race in the near future?
Surprisingly clear and objective. Just no one think the west will react like that. Or the UkrainianS.
Then the code is not the same of what smalltalk does with #select:thenCollect:

Smalltalk's Collection classes have a method #species which return what class to use as the new container.
Or it is classist. Or is just plain failing.
This is surprisingly detailed:

“ Weather: An invasion that begins in January or February would have the advantage of frozen ground to support the cross-country movement of a large mechanized force. It would also mean operating in conditions of freezing cold and limited visibility. January is usually the coldest and snowiest month of the year in Ukraine, averaging 8.5 hours of daylight during the month and increasing to 10 hours by February.8 This would put a premium on night fighting capabilities to keep an advance moving forward. Should fighting continue into March, mechanized forces would have to deal with the infamous Rasputitsa, or thaw.”
The problem is that 50 miles seems reasonable on its face; however, it ignores context.

Let's say you work for a consultancy in a large metropolitan area covering 5MM+ people and this area has 100+ consultancies. There are many groups of these consultancies and they all service different verticals. There are no other major areas with concentrations of business within hundreds of miles (see middle America).

A person may have been working exclusively within the healthcare vertical at one consultancy and would move to another to work in a completely different vertical (e.g., retail). Would 'reasonable' cover this nuance? Probably not, particularly not in the favor of the worker.