skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> why does the Louvre own the original and not a replica?

so if somebody claimed that they owned the original mona lisa, and that the louvre actually has a replica, would you consider that replica to be more valuable?

Who's to say what is the replica then? Suppose the replica was perfect?

It sounds weird, but the fact that the Louvre is displaying the mona lisa is what makes it valuable. The fact that most people is unable to know (nor care tbh) whether what they see in that glass box is actually the original or a really good replica.

So what makes NFT any different in this sense? It's not a technological thing, but a social thing.
Don't know about the rest, but West Berlin wouldn't have been viable without massive financial support from West Germany. So it was successful because it had to be successful as a showcase of capitalism, but left to its own devices (even without being blockaded by the soviet army) it would have quickly failed...
And of course the author is Italian.
The russian 'big stick' on Ukraine certainly seemed to breed widespread resentment. To the point the ROW is glad the US is there to coordinate the punitive response.
Minto Pyramid and SCQA – how to present/ pitch to execs
> if you know how to leverage technology, you can build impressive things very quickly

I worked at a start-up for 18 months at the start of 2020. I look at it as the best experience of "flow" I'm ever likely to have. I come from an infrastructure/devops background, the two other engineers were developers (one with significant management experience) and the rest were data scientists. Within a crazy short time we had CI/CD, separate environments for dev, testing and production, extremely scalable infrastructure in multiple regions. We set up kanban, daily standups, weekly design meetings. We considered logging and metrics from the start. Product development was insanely quick, and there were essentially no infrastructure blockers because I was able to produce IaC and deploy it as it was required. We put heavy focus on minimizing cost to increase runway (ie: scale to zero, free services like gitlab & Cloudflare). In under a year we had an MVP that we could deploy to any region from scratch with two commands (terraform apply and a script to helm install the rest).

I'll add one thing: while you can spin up impressive things quickly, it's easy to screw up. Like deciding you can ignore environments, regions and scalability "for now". You think you can do it later? You can't. Not when you've got a shitload of customers running in your one big janky data center.

I know. Right now I'm working for a company who did this. There are no naming conventions. Deploying a new data center is a nightmare. I want to throw out all of their shitty code and start over, but I can't. The company is doing well but the VCs want to see rapid expansion into different regions and they're simply unable to do it.

Build good foundations.
> I'd rather take my chances with the acid culture than with the alcohol culture.

That sounds like a false dichotomy, unless you have some data to support that?
Company-owned devices can be provisioned in "fully-managed mode" a.k.a. "device owner mode". Sounds like they didn't do that?

https://developers.google.com/android/work/requirements/full...
https://developers.google.com/android/work/play/emm-api/prov...
Sounds like an immutable global record isn’t such a panacea after all…
You may have gotten a bad item. I bought an MTB from them 4 years ago, transformed it to electric (which it's not designed for), rode 10,000km+ on it, on many different roads, in all kinds of weather, and the thing is still as good as new. It's really indestructible. I also bought bikes for my kids, and had friends buy bikes from them, etc. Never had any problem.
Because it's a good cash cow for expensive consultants
Front wheel drive is nice in the winter - I hadn't thought of that until I watched a friend going up a steep snowy road with no problems, while 2wd cars were stuck. The electric motor on the front wheel, his own pedalling on the back wheel: Both wheels are powered. He had traction like a 4wd car.
(2013) according to https://danluu.com/.
I've had a similar experience... Long before COVID 19 existed. Stress remains a risk factor with a much higher prevalence than COVID or vaccine induced myocarditis
Depends, with something like Live++ or VC++ hot reload, it would be ok.
Well I understand now and I think your preference is entirely reasonable but I would suggest different wording in the future. The normal definition for "inquisitive" doesn't imply those things, just curiosity. Asking at all would generally be inquisitive. "inquisition-like", maybe? Or some other word, I don't know what fits best.

(And when it is curiosity, it's less offensive from someone that doesn't know much, which is part of what threw me off so badly.)
Cross-Attention Merges Images with Text in Transformer Architecture
There's a few genres that incorporate these kinds of instruments; shoegaze / pop, synthpop / synthwave and noise come to mind. Whether that's your thing is of course personal preference (for me it's not really but on occasion)
If they sold higher priced tickets, more bands would have incentive to tour. This would make live music more accessible, not less.

Right now they're not accessible to everyone, they're accessible to rich people and a lottery of poor people.
The content hash would prove nothing. What you're buying is "this NFT was minted by this artist, as confirmed by their Twitter or verified OpenSea account or whatever". The value is totally dependent on the social contract. Some random person minting the same NFT with the same hash would be worthless, unless they impersonate the artist.
I never claimed they were not - I said they were a big FU to nation state fiat. I don't work on web3 or own crypto. Nation State fiat is a scam too - I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make to me... Am I trading one hierarchical power structure for another? Maybe? Does that mean blockchains hold no promise? No. With POS an eth node will supposedly be able to run on a rasp pi - is that too much electricity?

Doesn't diminish my point that it is trying to disrupt nation state fiat and I am all for that - doesn't mean I have to sign on to whatever the replacement is - I can be against that as well.
Not if they said the second I bought it "You can have it for $45k and we don't come to your house and swap the wheels, or $43k and we do come to your house in 3 months and swap the wheels", or "Sure you can buy it, but you need to sign on the dotted line that you understand that the wheels are still ours and we'll swap them in a while for some other wheels, also ours and there is no way you can buy or use your own wheels."

Is it an acceptable practice to do this in fine print? I don't know. It's a bit dodgy I'll admit. But I have personally completely given up on the idea that just because I hand over money and receive a physical item I somehow "own" it in the sense that I can do what I want with it, at least if it contains software.
TI-84 can be rooted to do pretty much whatever you want. Not sure about the other two.
I have a perfectly good phone that’s bricked because of this. It really seems like there’s nothing you can do.
Tbh I hope ppl do pin stuff to specific versions and have their own repositories of packages because you dont want to have external dependencies during builds that can fail.

DevOps 101 more or less..
Network Solutions is my guess
The sign analogy works. The person owning the sign can't change the house, like painting the walls. That's only for the person owning the house.

If you own an NFT you can't print the image on a t-shirt and sell it, because the artist has the copyright, not you.
This works well because pickpockets are well known for their inability to tell lies, and would always answer truthfully.
Bike racks are not very secure; in many cases it's better to bring the bike with you in your office and keep it there.
You are right, you can, and people have, for example: seditionart.com

I certainly encourage you to buy NFTs on on those centralized websites. Nevertheless, paying for ledger entries representing art didn't really gain popularity before blockchains, so there is that.
If it's state-sponsored the number of nations is pretty limited. They attacked Brazilian government infrastructure, which rules out Russia, US, Israel and China who all maintain strong Brazilian relations.

That doesn't leave very many actors capable or willing to do this.

They also use Brazilian slang, which granted could just be disinfo to throw people off.
The whole point of capitalism is that economic equilibrium is also value equilibrium. So if you think it's good to have a Woodstock, unless you like artificial scarcity, you should think that having two Woodstocks is approximately twice as good. Now maybe you cannot produce another Woodstock, like there's some inherently limited resource like management effort or willingness or space or licenses, but that's the idea.

(I don't think that the capitalist ideal matches reality. But you should at least get the idea if you're gonna disagree.)
Were*, and does it matter? You seem to try to white knight for the Japanese and Japanese culture, but they're perfectly capable of doing so themselves and trying to speak for others like that is infantilizing them.
You should not do any tracking (in which case you do not need any pop-up and approval dialog) and if you put things like twitter feeds, Google analytics and Adsense, you need to have a choice for the user which, if they do not want this, will not put them on your site.

The thing is; most sites do not honour your choices or make them as hard as possible as analytics and Adsense are required for monetising. Analytics can be replaced by friendly versions that are gdpr compliant without personal info storage or cookie tracking, but then your monetising (Adsense) or internet marketing (AdWords and landing pages) are not integrated into funnels and a lot harder.

I have tested it with some of our assets (most of which do no tracking at all and only have 1 necessary cookie for login without SaaS cannot work) but a few have Adsense and analytics; we have a small and simply bar; accept or not accept; both is one click. ~90% (not exact as we try to compare the Google analytics which means they did say Accept vs the none cookie analytics which means both accept and not accept) clicks Accept which is enough. We use [0] by the way.

[0] https://plausible.io
I never seen a HPC center where use of containers was encouraged. It is just running binaries from user directories on disk under different users.

Attempts to introduce containers in a way which doesn't stand in the way are treated as revolutionary. Such as the Fuzzball scheduler (I found no good written source on a quick skim so have a talk) https://youtu.be/Pbmxq3dg35E
Ironically, criminal damage has its origins in the Frame-Breaking
Act of 1812, carrying the death penalty, and designed to stem the
rising tide of Luddites. Today companies like Nintendo, Microsoft and
Sony are the Luddites.

Because the damage is permanent, to "tangible property", and "without
lawful excuse" (and please don't knee-jerk to arguing "they can do
what they want because you agreed to it" - you didn't and they
can't), I'd think there's a very good case for criminal damage as
distinct action from any computer misuse recourse.

The argument needs to made, not on behalf of the users as a class
action, but on behalf of another stakeholder - the environment. Every
time a company makes and sells products that can be "bricked" they
contribute to e-waste (see [1][2] if this issue isn't yet on your
radar - it's something every hacker should be aware of).

I have faith that smart people in European politics genuinely get
this merging problem, and we have the courage, time and willingness to
bring new legislation or trade restrictions that would make it
impossible to sell such products in Europe. Even better I would like
to see Microsoft made to pay the cleanup costs.

[1] https://digitalvegan.net/digital-vegan-print-sample.pdf (ch 17 Wasteland)

[2] https://www.fathom.pro/blog/2020/09/world-wide-waste-an-inte...
For anyone looking for confirmations look for Zalando’s Postgres Operator. They host 100++ db clusters using that also for production workloads.
I haven't had the pleasure of riding a Helix but I would love to try.

Can you clarify what you mean by “the fold is the most compact possible, even more compact than Brompton in terms of maximizing the use of space“

The Brompton's folded size is 585mm high x 565mm long x 270mm wide

The Helix is 580mm x 635mm x 230mm.
For Cpt. America this makes total sense...his shield is both a weapon and a defensive device, as demonstrated throughout the movies many times.

But carrying a small dog (a pug) while charging into battle? What exactly is the point? Where is the logic? Even if its the royal dog, when the compound is overrun by the archenemy of the duke, the royal family unaccounted for, the most effective weapons sabotaged, the last thing his most capable military commanders would think of doing, is saving the royal pet. And even if that was the intention, how does carrying it into the thick of the fight achieve that?

Yes, we accept absudities in movies, if they make sense in the setting. If Cpt. Rogers were to carry a pet hamster around in his pocket for seemingly no reason, while fighting Hydra, it bet the acceptance of this would be kinda low, Marvel or no.
Yes I agree.

It also costs money to make money. Minting coins isn't free: you need the right cupronickel mix or whatever they're using so that the coin matches specifications. This is an industrial process like any other.

Also not all of the countries ask the mint to actually mint. They're buying "flans" i.e. coin shaped metal that hasn't been struck yet, just prepared according to spec. They strike the coins themselves.

As others have noted I think it really also depends what your domestic situation is, i.e. can the whole process be done in a cost effective and safe way where you are? If not... This is just the cloud but for country tokens ;)
Because of the speculation and the “hidden” drive to make money (it’s basically a 21th century goldrush) makes it that it will never be what proponents usually advocate (decentralized, everyone benefits, open)

2002-2008 internet (before Facebook) was more Web3 in spirit probably then this Web3 bamboozle.
This is one of the weakest criticisms to web3 I've seen. Shocked that this is on the front page of HN. Literally every point here has already been talked about and debunked.

> Web3 Platforms are Centralized

The blockchain itself is decentralized, and you don't have to use centralized platforms.

> Mining is Centralized

Sure mining is not as decentralized as we'd like it to be, but it is unquestionably less centralized than the alternative.

> Environmental concerns

Look into "Proof of Stake"

> Blockchain Sucks, Period

Blockchain works very well for its intended applications actually. For example, Ukraine just raised $54 million through crypto. The article doesn't even attempt to construct an argument, so there's nothing to address.

> Blockchain is not the way to decentralization. We need a hyper-efficient system that takes minimal computing resources to scale to a whole planet of users, while making it easy for newcomers to join the network.

Looking forward to your whitepaper on your superior alternative to a blockchain. Until then, we'll stick to blockchains for their intended use cases.

Honestly this article and the comments section is an embarrassment. You guys should actually research what you're criticizing. HN has been anti-crypto since crypto was invented, at this point over a decade later maybe it's time to have some humility and admit that you guys were wrong, and that maybe this thing is actually worth attempting to understand lest you want to continue to be on the wrong side of history
Your house analogy is not really correct, since in a digital space, you can have an infinite number of the same house, and an infinite number of people living in that house.

I consider it more like a certificate. Some cool architect made an incredible house. Lots of people live in that exact same house. But there is one who can say he bought the certificate straight from the architect himself. It doesn't give him anything extra legally.

You can indeed argue what extra value this 'certificate' really has, except for some bragging rights. But I think that is the point of it: bragging rights.
> Some people genuinely can write good code all night long for months on end.

Yes. What they can't is do it all night long and all day long for months on end.

There are people whose hourly output is twice as múch as normal. I would even say that hourly output variation is much higher then "how many hours per week you are effective" in terms of output. And none of the "people angry because they have to test too much" ever happens.
The Apple Silicon-based MacBook Air continues to be killer bang-for-buck, and even better used.

And no fan.
Boil the eggs in salted water (no matter if start is hot or cold, for hard boiled cook for 15 minutes from cold start, 10 if start from boil point).

After they are cooked place them in cold water until they cool off a bit.

You'll have no trouble peeling either way.
They should walk in front of their car then where no other cars would be.
Unreal getting paid only when a user makes money [1] also compounds the dog-fooding. I believe that is how a company should be run - align your interests directly with the users'.

With Unity, the price per seat means only people who leave will send a signal, which will be too late. They are not incentivized to make day-to-day work efficient, which is why there are a million small bugs.

[1] - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/faq - "This license is free to use and incurs 5% royalties when you monetize your game or other interactive off-the-shelf product and your lifetime gross revenues from that product exceed $1,000,000 USD."
You can put this in your build steps that it downloads everything; I have that and prefer it anyway; companies ‘tend’ to suddenly remove, change or switch things off or get hacked.
This post on HN

https://tec.fsi.stanford.edu/docs/aleksandr-dugins-foundatio...

claims that Russia wants to leverage its oil and natural gas resources over the next several decades to redraw geopolitical boundaries under a new vision for the Russian empire that Alexandre Dugin and company call 'Eurasia,' which he hopes to extend from Dublin to Tokyo.

In which case, it sounds like Putin and his friends may care about climate change as much as they do about other 'Atlanticist' hot-button topics ... like gender diversity.
I would not take anything with "buzz" in the name seriously. To me it is still gossip.

It's simply unfortunate branding.
Exactly. NFTs are digital trading cards. I don't know why people can't wrap their heads around the simple concept.
>Putting a 50TB+ database that enables eye watering revenue on k8s

But you can run the software in k8s while using an external data store for data. With microservices you can also use small databases for each and push the data you want to persist like finished transactions and invoices to external systems.

No reason to have only one giant database to do everything in. At my last place of work we moved from a monolithic software using a giant database to microservices and many small databases, some of them NoSQL.
A hit piece by the Huffington Post on a thread about cancel culture. Focused on Matt Taibbi's words from 23 years ago, for which he apologized several times. This is part of the problem, and I hope you can realize that. Every single person that has been in the public light for over 20 years will have some ugly events in their past, get over it.
After seeing this incident, and particularly Okta’s response to this, I will make it a personal mission to ensure that Okta is not used anywhere that I work.
The article is about "one year later" - not "immediately after".
How do you avoid anyone else putting CP on a blockchain because they can. And so a node runner always has this problem regardless of what say OpenSea does for example.
I had a similar experience with HardCaml back in 2015/2016. The benefits where overwhelming: higher productivity, higher reusability, less intractable bugs, tighter TTM, and no more slippage in deliverables timeline. The performance where comparable to Verilog-only project (density, path length). In the end, the effort was shut down by management because the approach was “too complicated”.
Huh, you've got to reach to the WNBA to find someone. Kinda proves my point.

Edit: And to all the wonderful people who no doubt checked themselves to make sure they had expertise on the subject before they downvoted my question (!), here's some food for thought:

A 2021 study of 789 professional athletes found that only 5 (0.6%) had heart inflammation. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/...

Another study found that COVID in athletes was rarely serious: "The severity of COVID-19 in elite athletes is predominantly mild and without complications. Athletes can return to sport after two symptom-free weeks and additional heart screening is usually not required." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S144024402...

2021 review of 12 studies: "Athletes have an overall low risk of SARS-CoV-2 pericardial/myocardial involvement, arrhythmias and SCA/SCD." https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/7/4/e001164.abstract

2022 editorial review: "Most importantly, to date, there have been no acute adverse cardiac events reported as a direct consequence of COVID-19 infection in the athletes included in these large registries" and noted that the few smaller studies that deviated from these findings were badly designed. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8730531/

2022 study: "These data add to the growing body of the literature and agree with larger cohorts that the risk of cardiac involvement post-infection appears to be low among elite athletic and semi-professional athletic populations." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8791243/

2022 letter: "Several elite professional athletes tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. A few reports of persistent and residual symptoms of infections emerged. However, peak athletic performance in elite athletes did not seem to be affected, with some athletes recording historical performances both in the weeks following as well as several months after contracting the novel coronavirus.... These findings raise further awareness about the importance of performing regular physical activity and maintaining a favourable body composition and overall fitness, and emphasise the need for public health initiatives and actions to promote a healthy lifestyle on a population level." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S14402...

The idea - however appealing to Americans and apparently hackers - that everyone is on an equal playing field of risk is absolute nonsense.
Some projects I know where innovation is being done.

Monero [1]: Completely annonymous yet secure currency

Truebit [2]: Decentralized verifiable computation

Oasis [3]: Decentralized, fast and cheap transactions with annonymous smart contracts

Marlin [4]: Infraestructure to speed up any blockchain

[1] https://www.getmonero.org
[2] https://truebit.io
[3] https://oasisprotocol.org
[4] https://www.marlin.org/
>3. Nope. Without an underlying economic activity it's all a ponzi scheme. There is no finance in DeFi. Just scammers running pump and dump schemes and rugpulling starry eyed idiots who think centuries old financial principals are useless and want to make a quick buck without doing anything.

There's plenty of projcts ran by people who are clearly not trying to scam anyone. Time will tell whether they will actually be successful but you are clearly biased again and not even attempting to be objective.
Hacked GDB Dashboard Puts It All on Display