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Ask HN: What Happened to NFTs?
A the start of the year I couldn't go three articles without seeing something about NFTs. Less than 3 months later, and I barely see anything. Is this just normal hype cycle cooling, or were they really the scam everyone was decrying and have already passed?
Firefox takes sides based on politics not justice.

I may need to seek a more "free" alternative
"Zortech" is a great name.
Resentment, attitude to the law, stability, education level. Stuff like that. You grow up homeless since 14, you will not be the most stable genius.
Pfft next on your slippery slope you'll be making silly predictions about adverts in ridiculous places like the Start menu on Windows computers.
I’ve always wondered this too. Once they figure how to make me feel like I’m sunbathing late night on the beach instead of by my pool, I’m sold.
> This reminds me of something that I read once - allegedly Aristotle was actually against books; he believed that having ready access to books made it easy to 'fake' the type of education that requires mentorship.

I think that was Socrates, not Aristotle. Socrates was very firmly against the concept of writing, and we know all about this only because his student was writing down what the teacher was telling him.
I regret that the computing experience in 2022 has to be so atrocious. But it is necessary to understand that general computing has its limit when the user does not want to make the effort to have independence [to educate themselves on the operation of a von Neumann machine].

There is a whole GNU/Linux ecosystem [as well as a few others], mature and reliable. I even feel sorry for the user who, for one reason or another, prefers to be spoon fed by the Windows system. As you can see, there is a price to pay for the convenience of ignorance [hey, everybody uses Windows!].

Or it may be that general computing, the noble goal of bringing computing for the masses, is just an illusion, and cannot be done without gatekeepers like MS.
HR/payroll usually works closely with senior management. I think the big challenge is that there's not enough "in case of emergency" money or flexible work agreements to go around to those bus factor employees. Guess they'll have to learn the hard way that one person who does 3 jobs will mean the company will have to pay for the sourcing and retention of those 3 new roles.
Did Ubuntu stop running them?
I wonder if this will make its way into the Enterprise LTSC version or not.

I will likely be recommending it -- we really do NOT have an alternative to Windows (and I know someone will try to be clever about it and make any number of suggestions that aren't going to actually work for us) -- but I can imagine some fairly large software vendors starting to consider Linux compatibility just because of how noxious this is.
Can't you just, like, manually add Yandex as a search option?
Linux is quite expensive in terms of manhours
DirectStorage API Now Available on PC
GCP has had a ton of price hikes and price reductions.

This change tells us one of two things:

1) they want to use price as a way to influence customer behavior

2) A PM wants to get promoted and this is a way to hit whatever arbitrary metrics they need.

Or a combo.

There is a zero chance alphabet as a parent company cares about the specific pricing of super specific SKU. And there is a zero percent chance they will shut down the fastest growing non-ads business they have...

GCP is extremely profitable, they are just reinvesting in more growth.

(I'm a Ex GCP employee)

Edit: I want to make it clear I'm not supporting this decision. Arbitrary (or what seem like arbitrary from a customer viewpoint) price hikes is one of the reasons I left.
>The problem is the money is going to the wrong people.

I could not agree more. Not only is it going to the wrong people, it's going to the wrong organizations and government programs that have no real drive to reduce homelessness since that would be self-defeating. What they do is end up spending $60K/tent or $650K/unit on housing the homeless only to have rundown everything within a few years.
> Do you know about their contract with yandex?

I frankly don't care. I don't use Yandex, but if I did, I'd be really pissed off at this move. Firefox shouldn't be including only search engines that pay a fee; they should be including all search engines that their users might find useful.
Experts tend to outnumber the novices, since you are only a novice for a few years and then you are an expert for the rest of your career. People have all these strange notions in programming just because it is a growing field, but if you look around it isn't like novice teachers outnumber experiences ones, or novice doctors are all that common etc.
You mean to update the clusters incrementally as new data arrives?
Reducing energy impact, if anything, is the opposite of poverty.

Living below you means, avoiding unnecessary purchases and trips and saving money makes you more financially stable.
> Ask HN: How can scam callers fake a mobile phone number?

International Telephone Standards.
VoIP
VoIP Companies like https://www.sipgatebasic.co.uk/tour

And if you set up a VoIP number and a pbx like freeswitch or asterisk, they will send the ringing tones down to the caller so if you have the pbx set to record calls you can listen to what the caller is chatting about whilst they are ringing you, hearing the ringing tone at their end waiting for you to pick up. All a bit spooky but thats the technology for you!

> - How can a spam caller call me with a source phone number that does not exist?

Again they have the VoIP number but when you ring it they can play a dead line tone down to you instead or a ringing tone. With VoIP and Freeswitch/asterisk and probably other PBX's you control all of that.

> - Shouldn't my mobile phone network verify that the caller - which was also inside their network - is a valid subscriber? Otherwise, how can they bill someone for this call?

Depends on the telecoms standards in the country and/or the telecoms provider.

> - How does this kind of scam call work technically?
Any member of the public can set up VoIP number and PBX's like freeswitch and asterisk and do this.

If its not a VoIP then telecoms companies and the security services in your country, or maybe you mobile phone is hacked and your mobile has logged onto a local fake cell instead which is slightly different to the VoIP setup above but
I dont know how much this device can do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker#Active_...

and you can do things like this
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/intercepting-cell-phone-calls/
That is the dose I receive and it is very noticeable.

I do not know what a trip is or is not supposed to be like but it was a very wild sensation.
I had a laptop that came with Windows Vista and I don't remember it being full of distractions. Granted, perhaps the OEM turned them all off.
The US was a net-exporter of energy in 2020 (and maybe 2019) but decided since then to become a net-importer.

That said, refineries are actually somewhat specialized wrt what kind of crude they can process. The US produces some types of crude in excess of its capacity to refine said crude and has more capacity to refine some types of crude than there is domestic supply.

Note also that the Canadian fossil fuel industry is somewhat intertwined with the US fossil fuel industry. The same is true wrt Mexico, albeit to a lesser extent.
Nope, no worm or malware, just an automated windows reboot. There was a dialog box saying Windows had to reboot, and it was counting down. I saw it when it had a minute left.

It was at that point I realised I was not in control of my own machine. And I switched to Linux the next day.

Kept a dual boot of Windows for years, but hardly ever booted into it once I got comfortable.
It always depends on what your client knows. For most clients you could probably cut 30-70% of boilerplate, it's just that you don't know what. I've seen people who could exploit an unpatched Linux box in minutes but would have a hard time exploiting CRSF vulnerabilities and also the other way around.

Of course, some people sell you a lot of paper for a lot of money, but even the good companies include a lot of you-know-if-you-can-skip-it boilerplate so that the client understands the report. At least that's my experience.
thanks, what do you think about the app?
I don't think a dependence on x86 is "a rock and a hard place". People consciously using Windows machines do it for pretty much one reason: they need compatibility with everything, no matter the cost. Switching to ARM would throw the baby out with the bathwater, and I don't think Microsoft is dumb enough to try that.
This is standard practice; during the USSR, there was always a "local" leader and a CCP leader. The difference here is I don't think the Ukranians are going to stand for it.
It’s supposedly only 5-10% of iPhone sales.
> It’s their browser not yours if you don’t trust them use something else.

That's... not how things work. If you're not happy about something, you should complain about it. That's the only way that people's preferences become known, and changes can be made. If we all constantly hopped from product to product when the product we're currently using does something we didn't like, we'd very quickly run out of options.
Lots of restaurants around here use Toast and I'll pretty much always use that if it's available.

I get a nice consistent interface, it remembers my name/payment across the different restaurants that use it, and as far as I've seen they're not a raw deal for the restaurant. Square I think is pretty similar? Though I just don't personally see as many places using it for online ordering.

This Google feature unfortunately seems to favor the high-commission major apps in its listings, though the "native" one where Google itself shows an ordering interface seems to be a no-commission DoorDash thing, at least for the restaurants I've seen? Which still has "extra-middleman" problems but at least isn't so bad financially.
Implanted bluetooth devices is an edge case; so much so that it made the news. The normal case is people hiding devices in their clothes.

Anyway, I'm not sure whether it's considered unethical to help a patient electively implant a bluetooth receiver in their bodies, but falsely signing a medical release card probably is.
Right? Imagine what happens when a program hijacks it to inject malvertising or smth similarly nefarious...
Hey, thanks for using Smort! Yes, browsers extensions are next in line! Scholars.io looks nice too :)
insert joke about 2022 and WW3 over here
Python's closeness to pseudocode is one reason why it makes a fantastic choice for whiteboard coding interviews.

I've personally had interviewers frustrated that I solve problems correctly so much faster than they expected. And not only correctly, but to the point where I could type what I wrote verbatim into the interpreter and prove that it actually works.
You just made me boot into Windows and this is what I saw:

--

"Microsoft recommentds Windows 11 for your device"

"blablabla it's the best"

"Learn more -- Decline upgrade -- Get it"

--

Pressing "Decline upgrade" yields a new screen:

--

"Not sure about Windows 11?"

"blablabla it's the best"

"Skip for now -- Get Windows 11"

--

And "Skip for now" brings me to my desktop.

I wonder if disabling TPM could be a solution.
> Does a search engine need an extension to support being used for omnibox search? It might.

No, IIRC it just needs to have an appropriate OpenSearch xml file to have support for omnibox. I use a third-party engine that isn't bundled in FF and it works fine in omnibox.
I'm happy to see old stuff removed. It frees up precious resources for better technologies.
It is almost impossible to build a new refinery in the US and difficult (at best) to significantly modify the ones that we have.
Every college class I had that taught something worth knowing ended with a test that allowed access to any notes you wanted, as the point was to demonstrate that you had internalized concepts, not just memorized facts.
It's been a few years, but I thought NY's subway voice was more sarcastic-sounding than other cities, and I figured that was because it was more effective. "Please stand clear of the closing doors (dumbass)".
That was exactly my point. It's absolutely not easy to do. I laughed when I read that.
I would pay an extra $0.05/gal if it forced the next person using the pump to listen to marketing from the political party of my preference. $0.10 if it couldn't be muted.
Russia may-have found a Buyer for its Cheap Oil – India
The issue on linux is that the software you need for your business doesnt run on it. This one you cannot fix yourself.
Thank you @troydavis! Greenhouse and Lever definitely seem to have the lions share (lever skewing older Y Combinator cohorts and Greenhouse newer). If you just happen to come across any newer/ up and coming ATSs, I'd love if you could update this thread (while I keep digging).
There is ARM Windows alongside x86 Windows. Approximately nobody wants it, for good reasons.
Never before was the open internet challenged this hard, and never before has it failed so hard. Under pressure, every single thing is subject to politics and cancellation: browsers, search engines, search results, social media, cloud infrastructure, payment systems and even money itself.

None pass the test of being open or neutral.

At this rate, your much hated crypto folks may actually start to have a point. Kind of like a lunatic sometimes being accidentally right.

Note the downvotes, for my sin of even mentioning the word "crypto".
I like my OnePlus, but they have become quite pricey of late.
UAC prompts, driver compatibility issues, and "Windows Vista Capable" branding on a bunch of computers that couldn't actually run Vista properly

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/03/the-vista-capable-de...
They've been doing Twitter Spaces for several months now, with recordings and show notes here: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/twitter-spaces Disclosure: I was the main speaker on one of their spaces.
I would love nethack/slashem on this, but I think NH 3.4.3 needs 2MB of RAM at least.
It's also worth thinking about why we use tests and what they actually measure.

Malcolm Gladwell (yes, I know) did a podcast[1] on the LSAT that's pretty good. In that podcast, he makes a pretty compelling argument that what the test measures isn't very useful.

[1]: https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-tortoise-and-the-hare/
I'm aware of that, but it's not suitable for me. I'm looking for this functionality on my real computer, not my phone.
Yet another reason to avoid touching the button and just crossing during the appropriate traffic phase.
It's a cost center if doing more of it doesn't increase revenue in proportion.
I think that cheating also causes a lot of programs to price cheating in, i.e. make the course harder because the cheating they don't detect gives them excessive expectations of students.

I saw this in my CS program (and heard about it from other programs.) None of the classes taught people to program, they just expected people to know how already, and as a pretense assigned everyone a programming instruction book (in the program's official language) that was never covered through lecture. The non-programmers would immediately start falling behind and cheating together to tread water. I definitely saw people graduate who had no ability to program; they were busy enough figuring out how to cheat.

an aside: CS programs are spoiled by hobbyist programmers like me who learned for fun when they were children, and they act as if everyone was a hobbyist. Plenty of people entering CS were just comfortable with math and liked playing video games. They foolishly expected to learn how to program at programming school.
You're correct, but back in the day, all nodes were trusted nodes, so would have been a lot of overhead to authenticate all this stuff. Hasty regulatory oversight in a fledgling industry led to the current situation.

STIR/SHAKEN actually has the potential to do things correctly, as a call Digital Attestation Certificate has to be supplied... but telcos make quite a bit of money off of scam callers so don't expect them to move quickly, and I'd expect them to implement it in the absolutely poorest way possible.
Windows LTSC does not include the OneDrive garbage. I highly recommend checking it out.
This suggests that ketamine is beneficial for people who are suicidal to prevent them from killing themselves. The claim that is generally made about ketamine and depression is that it can have a short-term resetting effect of someone's depressive symptoms (not necessarily at a suicidal level), making it possible to escape the black hole that otherwise can take weeks, months, years to come out of.

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/how-ket...
Probably has something to do with the dramatic increase in prevalence of obesity and diabetes throughout the USA over the same period
Linux is a lot better for developers, mostly because lots of developers use it, in a feedback cycle, but the fact that most of the system is open-source also helps.

It's also good if you just need to do one or two things and they happen to work on Linux. Some people install it on their grandma's internet PC.

Even a majority of Steam games seem to work on Linux now, via Valve's fork of Wine.
It immediately relieved my existential dread. I fear the next infusion will be intense, however.
Not everyone is an ace hire and new people bring new ideas. So churn helps move the median developers out the door so the company has a chance with someone new.

Plus, really good developers are taken care of.
Lots of people asking about alternatives to Windows here. I've found Ubuntu-MATE to be very good for my needs. It uses the Ubuntu base which gives it access to the debian software repo as well as being a popular distro so often particular use-cases have been fixed for it. However the MATE aspect is a follow-on from an older desktop environment (Gnome 2), which is a fairly no-nonsense, feature rich and polished environment. It remains under active development and keeps thing simple. I prefer this to the changing sands that is Gnome 3 / Unity or Ubuntu's adaption of Gnome 3.
If your implication here is that the very public backwards compatibility statement, the mailing lists where PEPs are discussed and approved/rejected, and the website python.org are a "locked filing cabinet", it may interest you to learn that this exact PEP was discussed over two threads and nearly 1000 posts on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19948642, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19985802.
Feminists Fought for the Right to Forget Childbirth
I wonder how many Russian developers they manage to move out? If it's not a lot then the business must be impactly a lot considering the number of Russian employees.
How is no one calling this out as an obvious cyberattack smoke test? It's literally across from the Pentagon.
That means Microsoft Office, specifically. Right?
I think globalisation as we saw it was the logical evolution of a world largely at peace for 30 years. No cold wars, no world wars (of course plenty of local ones with terrible human suffering). It was almost as if we thought humanity was past that; we were past the trenches of WWI, fascist craziness of WWII and entrenched rivalry of Cold War, and we’re building a stable, global world of tomorrow. Then it does make sense to source everything wherever it is cheapest; services in developed countries, resources in developing ones (for consumers in the former anyway).

Except of course, it turns out that wasn’t right. China is raising the stakes and wants a seat in the superpower club, Russia clearly isn’t past WWII style politics. But I guess 4 years ago this wasn’t obvious to the average politician (who tend to be reactive anyway).
Is there a paper or a post which describes the solution?
It is 12000 casualties, so that is already the sum of wounded, surrendered and dead.
Agreed, super super important to do customer dev.

What I haven't seen mentioned here is that if you do customer dev right, you get a leg up on sales.

One of the slickest founders I know would get conversations with his target customers to ask about their jobs + workflows. He'd learn from everyone but he kept note of the people who shared the same problem he was targeting. He now has a list of dozens of people who he has a relationship with who would make great first customers.

He didn't need to build a landing page or even a prototype in figma because he was just talking to people to learn about what they do.
I have primarily used Linux for ~15 years. At this point I honestly believe that it's less painful to switch from Windows to Linux than the other way around.

It's obviously still painful to change habits. And I won't downplay how Linux can often be difficult to get working perfectly.

The problem with Windows is that it just feels downright user hostile. Ads here and there, MS products constantly pushed, wizards everywhere, taskbar icons for every piece of hardware. It's like you are renting your PC instead of owning it.
It could be worse: hacked to tell unsighted pedestrians to walk even if there is through traffic. There was an X-Files episode with a guy causing car accidents by messing with traffic lights. However, it was via ESP instead of digital hacking.
> Was it life or death for the startup to achieve "world class compliance"?

Most likely.

Nobody cares about security until they lose actual money because of it.

After that, your CISO now has the budget and importance defined by how much money the company got taken for.
How does crypto fix this? The problem is not with their claim that this is a vulnerability - people have been shouting about this vulnerability long before crypto was invented - the problem is the claim that they will somehow fix this with tokens or DAOs
Windows works and is printing money since more than three decades. Of course they don’t need to add ads.

Since at least Windows 7 they could have done nothing other than changing colors and styles and still print money.

I’m not saying that Windows shouldn’t evolve. But since Windows 7, basically everything is just worse. I can’t see a single thing that I could qualify as "better". I just lost more and more control as the time passes. Heck I can’t even resize and move the taskbar anymore.

There is a lot of thing I like in my current job but the day I’ll quit, quitting Windows will be a relief.

And I’m saying that as someone who grew up with Windows, learned computing with Windows, played with Windows… Although I prefer Linux/macOS, I’ve never been "anti" anything. But Windows 11 is just insulting me on a daily basis, I can’t stand it anymore.
An even bigger point is being missed... the underlying cause, the societal pressure to get a degree in india is so great that people will do almost anything.
Also, check fastdoom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZvI8wCVOPU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh31az9epAo
I use Linux and uBlock on desktop and Graphene OS and Bromite on mobile... what's an ad anyway?
This seems to be solidly on the side of justice.
Fair enough, but I think that there are either alternatives, but also this was no the issue listed, the issue listed is like very easily solvable, I think the solution might even be on the getting started / installation guide of most distributions
Well, Food/Hotels/Groceries is an ideal place to show ads - which is the primary actual purpose of Google Maps as far as Google is concerned.
how exactly does Azure have no competition?

I have to use Azure at work, and in my experience it's a worse version of AWS/GCP:

- standard MS random indecipherable errors in the GUI (error 0x68482233: consult system administrator)
- extremely slow UI performance in the GUI
- extremely slow VM performance running their OS (even though it has 4 VCPUs, 32gb of RAM and a giant SSD)

it's a standard MS product, one where they (badly) copy the features of their competitors, and it only sells because they bundle it with their other crappy products which your company is already locked into