skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chiming in RE: Milady. I’m not a “crypto” guy, and I’ve never owned any NFT aside from Milady. FYI: I own a single Milady.

I think Milady is seeing its current success for a few reasons, but I think one core reason why it’s doing so well is that Milady does not exist in a vacuum as some random abstract piece of animal art without being the nexus of several subcultures.

The Milady community in many ways existed prior to the existence of Milady: breakcore music, Serial Experiments Lain fans (and anime fans generally), technolibertarians and cryptoanarchists (Urbit people mainly), image edit artists, e-girls, occultists, internet catholics, fashion bugs, and more have all converged on Milady.

This is due in part to a mutual attraction to the projects supposed philosophical backing (primarily texts from Angelicism01's Substack, Hiroki Azuma’s Database Animals, Remillia Corporation’s members tweets/writings), but also I think its success can largely be attributed to the fact that putting on the mask of a Milady and posting insane shit on Twitter is just a lot of fun.

Having a Milady PFP is an instant ticket into a community of thousands of posters ranging from the schizo-hikikomori to family man VPs of industry. You don’t even need to own a Milady to participate, just change your PFP and you’re welcomed with open arms.

The project has lead to the coining/popularization of several neologisms: hypercitationalism, network spirituality, neo-orientalism, neo-chibi, auctioncore,et cetera. There is a hunger for an artistic/theoretical avant-garde, and Milady is delivering on the promise to innovate concepts and practices.
A comprehensive database on insects in the 90s style
> if a government wants to freeze your crypto assets, they can do so easily.

Lol source?
>One person losing a job or appointment isn't the same as people being forced out of careers entirely

Try speculating publicly about

1. Heritability of intelligence/behavior

2. Genetic differences among ethnicities

Of course neither points go against scientific "consensus" individually, it's only discussing them simultaneously that risks your scientific career.

Now try publishing something critical of covid vaccines. Or the modern approach to diagnosis/treatment of gender dysphoria. There are relatively few examples of such cancellations because the threat is implicit but well known, and that's sufficient to suppress dissent and give the illusion of consensus, but I digress.
Have financial sanctions worked in anything other than making the people of the country remain poor?
I invite you to ponder on the etymology and actual definition of the word "null".

It does not refer to some antecedent or to some notion of "reason", it refers as explicitly as possible to "not-x", contra whatever effect generates "x".

You are conflating the construction of the null hypothesis with a more liberal notion of hypothesis testing (science) per se.
"HideousKojima" is just the HN username of the person who wrote the above possible example of what could be in the book
Yes and Uber cannot do that?
Linking from twitter to a seld hosted blog makes sense for long term control over distribution of their content, and discoverability of their other work.

I wish RSS were more popular.
I didn’t say they did. I said they used vector graphics (more specifically, they use vector schematics), with the implication that these vector graphics are “lesser” even than pixel graphics in terms of potential for representational fidelity / skeuomorphism — but also that this doesn’t matter (and in fact, is a benefit), because most sim games are fundamentally about simulating abstract models, not about simulating reality; so a direct representation of the model is clearer and more "fun" than any attempt to embed that model into a view of reality.
> when can you claim something as secure?

Typically: don't do that.

Nevertheless, if you insist: you can claim a certain abstraction of a system guarantees certain mathematically expressed requirements cannot be violated by a certain attacker model once you've formally proved that.

Of course, all implementations have implementation details which violate the abstraction, your mathematically expressed requirements may not fully capture your intentions, and in practice, an attacker may have additional options that your model doesn't consider. But hey, now you can truthfully claim that "the system" is "secure" - for some values of "system" and "secure".
OS X vs Windows
How Much Resource Use is Fair? National responsibility for ecological breakdown
I think it sort of depend on how you think about it. The argument is that your pay inflated already and it’s the market that is catching up, potentially overshooting. So I might ask did your last few years of raises beat it match inflation?

In the sf Metro Area from 2016 till now I watched my wage double, pre stock. There is no way that wasn’t inflation, especially being at the later stages of my career.
I need an nft of this comment
So that's why I still like Hacker News, dude your suffering has worth, they didn't respect you, your rights, nothing, and it was wrong. Well maybe show don't tell, I have a letter that talks about my stay in a psych ward, 75 days, which seemed like 45 days because of the amnestic drugs, and the exact mistake was talking about it like they didn't want me to know to say it was "coercion", that I was being kept in "some kind of prison." But it's crazy, the "fuck the law" false incarceration doesn't end with just the act of it, and the refusal to allow even a Bible into the ward, it goes farther, like making me blind to lawyer advertisements I would love to reply to if only I could read them, they gave me banner blindness specifically for lawyer ads, like they didn't register until yesterday, at any rate, the "fuck the law" means they can keep you out of the courtroom forever. Forever. And nobody wants to look at your evidence, or hear your testimony, look at confessions, the level to which they treat your problem as unworthy of human attention is unreal. No wonder brain surgeons never get sued for malpractice by their own patients, they see it coming and they lobotimize them before they make it to the courtroom. I got lobotomized for precisely that reason, and it works like a charm, I have no idea how I'll ever get a lawyer to talk to me for more than an hour (it's not enough time), or being unable to tell the fact chronologically (again because I was conditioned to behave erratically in the presence of lawyers). I will say I am coherent in the presence of judges, so I did great in small claims, like the curse they put on me had a loophole they didn't think of, what if I write a letter to a judge? Can't figure out how to do that either. And I keep track of what was deleted, like knowledge of lobotomies, amnestic drugs, the words "torture" and "abduction", the definition of the Sapir-Whorf thesis (which must therefore be called a law, it applies to itself, and it was proven true as I recovered from this lobotomy), they also erased the words "personal injury lawyer" and "malpractice".

It's like the only thing they care about really is that you never reach the courtroom and sue.
Many apps are "pinning" TLS certificates, so you can't see their traffic w/o changing a hard-coded public key in the app itself.
To be clear:

"This could help with extraterrestrial telemedicine for astronauts, ISS building projects and even greatly benefit future deep space exploration. The latter bit is key, because standard radio communications typically experience up to 20-minute delays when talking to systems way (way) out into the void. With holoportation, holoporters could just stay onboard for real-time communication."
There are a lot of prolific scam's in the NFT medium*

and not a lot of other current uses for NFT*

NFT's themselves are actually a really neat piece of technology imo. I can imagine some uses for them. My imagination hasn't stumbled onto how those uses produce appreciating assets, though.
Despite originally being called deeds, I have never seen an NFT used to show ownership of a physical asset. Not really sure how well that would work anyway, since usually courts are the final judge of ownership, and when they figure out they can't order NFTs to be transferred they'll just say they don't actually show ownership.
Just like baseball cards. That said, there are some interesting use cases where the NFT is paired with off-chain cash flow. See royal.io, where IP rights for music are represented by NFTs and the owner of the NFT receives royalties. I think having a liquid market for that kind of investment is more tractable than a jpeg without real IP rights.
> Society, economics have changed to keep up.

I think that is debatable, at least from the Western standpoint. Much of Western society and its economics produce tremendous amounts of depression and anxiety (rooted mostly in fear).
Depression goes hand to hand with self-help as major themes on HN: two faces of the same phenomenon.

As already mentioned but worth it repeating, most self-help advice, in posts or books, are without ground.

Only experimental psychology can provide such a ground, but this is yet another academic field were the reproducibility crisis is high.

I read several times in academic sources that around 60% of psychological experiments' results can not be reproduced.

Many scandals revealed that very famous experiments had been willingly falsified, such as the "Stanford experiment". Stockholm syndrome is also a myth. The Hearst heiress has not been the "victim" of it, since just absolutely no academic psychologist investigated the case. It has not been proved since either.

I consider experimental psychology, and History as well, as Science. But the publish or perish system has killed probity in most academic fields. Biology, medicine, nutrition and even astrophysics are gangrened.

When you poll the general population, honest is a value important to the lower economic classes. "Do not steal" is an important moral rule since the temptation is high in our society of abundance (not for everybody) and constant call to consume through pervasive advertisements.

But the curve is linear: the more you go up in the social ladder, the lower honesty is ranked as a major value. White collars and capitalists escape taxes by fraud all the time, but very few end in jail. As recently shown, the IRS is more devoted to track the poor's fraud. It's the same in Europe. Luxemburg lives thanks to fiscal fraud of EU's firms.

Success ranks very high in the upper classes. Hence the self-help. People feel they are failure if they are not at least millionaires at 30. So they make do by picking up "methods" or set of tricks to get there. Or they get depressed.

Note also how often psychedelic products are mentioned as the panacea for depression. It is a very promising field (I can tell by experience and more and more scientific papers confirm it).

But it's often the immediate result that is researched. Gob some mushrooms, feel better, go back to the billionaire game... and back to depression a few weeks or months afterwards.

One need therapy to really get out if depression (or burn-out). If you feel the constant urge to be always more productive, maybe it's that surge that needs to be interrogated.

It doesn't mean to never try a method that you read about to be more this or that. Why not? Improving oneself is good. Just keep the whole picture in mind, eg be mindful of what you are looking for. Basic common sense that I myself forgot many times.
I want a law / rule for an unsubscribe button that traverses the graph of my contact info being shared and any org in that graph has to remove me unless a one on one direct relationship exists.

Then any organization sharing or receiving any contact info will have to be careful who they share it with lest they share it with someone who causes me to be unsubscribed from the group.
I'm not being lazy. It's a simpler way to end an email and wishes and regards sounds silly to end an email with to me. Best covers more bases.
That is an antisocial philosophy and, frankly, a disappointment.
I too worked at SAS early in my career, for about half a decade. It was a wild time; I learned a lot, rubbed shoulders with some incredibly bright people, got to visit the Kiheung fabs. I'm not at all surprised by the story, however, especially the scapegoating and fingerpointing when things go badly. The two things that ultimately made me leave were (1) there was no path to become an advanced IC, it was pretty well accepted that you'd burn out or go into management, and if you didn't you'd eventually get laid off and (2) being constantly told that American engineers were "not diligent" and that my 60+ hours per week, 24/7/365 pager carry, and mandatory weekend coverage, were not adequate. When your co-workers joke about taking PTO to leave early at 18:00, it's not a joke.
Hmm, true. So if there's ever a scammer they can't quite prove has the assets, the police can claim they sent it to NK and they only way to avoid The Hole is to cop to the real scam. That's probably worryingly legal too.
Yes. Socrates' daimon listened in the background and would warn or forbid him from doing certain things.
> Zero switching cost

In principle then it should also be a cakewalk to replace platforms like Facebook.

The real advantage the first established player has is the network effect - without that you have a catch 22 of needing drivers before passengers can use your service, and needing passengers/customers to encourage drivers to sign up and use the app. Similarly a new Facebook has to get everyone on it before anyone wants to be on it.

Lyft has a fraction of Ubers revenue, and in a lot of territories Uber doesn’t have any competition (eg here in the UK it is just Uber and traditional firms).
Then they would be more expensive than the other taxi firms that aren't pretending to be a tech company.
> SaaS is an absolute cancer.

I pay $40/year for Remember the Milk, a SaaS, and it's one of the most valuable ways that I spend my money - I easily get more than $40 a month in increased productivity (assuming a $20/hour personal time rate). Speak for yourself.
Twitter multiple post conversation are madness. At least to preserve your sanity and avoid to create a login with your real phone number...

https://nitter.net/lougrims/status/1516013489722216450
A "smart contract" is merely a program. Manipulating a program or abusing it for your personal gains at the expense of others is often illegal.

If you're not into the cryptocurrency mess, this reads like regular old hacking. "If code is law and your code allows me to execute arbitrary SQL queries, then this SQL injection is perfectly legal" doesn't hold up in court. The FBI will not let you go because technically you only asked the remote server to execute your request.

It does invalidate the "code is law" concept, but in the real world, code isn't law.
https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1395784294451265536

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Smart contracts should be considered self-funded bug-bounty platforms.
Ok nice. So NK uses the internet, www, email, computers, mathematics...
That trial specifically seems pretty specific to his attempt to avoid paying the Dodge brothers. And I'm not saying the courts don't sometimes say that profits are the most important thing, and I'm not even saying they aren't important. But that it's not the sole thing (or even the definition of) fiduciary and so a board of directors could, as fiduciaries, make decisions at the expense of maximizing profit.
Not exactly. They are indeed non-fungible tokens. But that doesn't mean they are worth anything.
Idk, at this point it seems pretty safe to say that the value has dropped.
The new bit is trivial public lookup and membership transfer without relying on a central data store or authority.

That is a new capability and allows for new things.
The irony of having a gigantic banner plastered over the article saying "SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER" before I can read a single word of the article.
I would prefer if all digital subscriptions were affirm to continue and not click to cancel.

It would work simply. If you purchase a month/year, whatever & you're set up with autopay, once the subscription you have purchased ends, the next time you use the service you would have to approve continuing the subscription at the same terms with a single click.

No click? No pay.

I would also like it to require a second link on the same interstitial to review the terms of the subscription, and that it would be required that if there were any term changes from the previous purchase (new legalese, price variances, or service options added or removed) that they would also have to detail those in brief.
I think many of the ideas originates from the problem that many users of Latex does not know how to combine proper Latex formatting with stylistic code. The output should be nicely formatted, and given the code it should be very easy to see what it will produce.

As such, I do not like the second example with the code format int_5^20 4 x dx. The absence of backslash \ makes me think that "int" is a variable, "_5^20" is too tight for me, and dx also looks like a variable. Personally, I prefer typing \int_{5}^{20} 4 x \dd{x}, where \dd is your favorite differential typesetting (for me it is \mathop{}\!\mathrm{d}).

But I suppose it is only meant to be a substitute for MathJax and similar markup programs, and not actually Latex.
They are enjoying victory in talking points in grassroots places, like social media, that aren’t controlled.

In almost every other place now the left dominates, anywhere where there is power or important people. Academia, tech, film, tv, music. You basically cannot get a right wing viewpoint in anywhere.
The "material" in this case is vacuum and plasma. Yes, something small and electromagnetic is affecting the conductivity of the plasma, and we have an idea what it is, but that doesn't mean we know how to simulate it or predict its effects on the thruster.

The fuel actually has quite high mass compared to a typical rocket engine. We use Xenon (131.293 g/mol) or Krypton (~83 g/mol), compared to air which is (~29 g/mol).
okay so whats the cutoff that we can establish a price? a month with no high offer?

at the very least it shows how illiquid the market is
Reversing the Typora activation
Vancouver proposes 10k-dollar annual fee for gas stations without EV charging
I’ve had a custom domain for some time, but it has its own risks / drawbacks.

1. If your registrar account is compromised, someone can redirect your mail at will.

2. If your payment lapses you might lose the entire domain.

3. If you die, it’s unlikely your family will understand how to maintain the system.

4. Some systems will classify your email as spam even with the right MX configuration (DMARC,DKIM etc)

I think the right choice is having a paid relationship with a mail provider that’s been in the business a long time, and use their domain.
Someone spent a lot of money on something, speculating that it would be worth more later, and they were wrong?

This never happens outside of crypto.

/s
That's great and I started doing it, just don't forget to renew your domain cause then you are really screwed
Tying a blockchain record to a physical object is impossible. This stupidity has been tried many times by various conmen with no success. Here's just one of many failures: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2018/06/how-i-became-leonardo-da-vi...

The reason blockchain works for cryptocurrencies and NFTs (that is the token itself, not the art that the token claims to represent) is because the entire source of truth is on the blockchain.

When it comes to physical objects, the source of truth is now split between the physical world and the blockchain. If your token must represent a physical object then you need some way for the real-world state and the blockchain state to always be kept in sync. That is impossible. The best approximation is to rely on a trusted authority for this, but then you don't need a blockchain anymore and can just have that trusted party maintain its own database.
I sometimes see a similar thing when people are arguing. They sometimes use a different current definition of the same word, and don't even realize. Sometimes I would guess it's intentional.

I can't think of a good example, but I'm reminded of when climate science emails were and leaked and one of the emails had someone applying a 'hack' to the data. One side decided they were doing something underhanded. But hack I believe the use of the term was 'clever method'.

Anyway, I see this often. People are arguing over the definition of words, but they think they're arguing about something else more profound.
Not taking away from the work here I think it’s very cool, but this feels a little off. This has been around since Day 1 if you are building your service applications in C++, Rust, Zig, Swift, or Kotlin. Essentially because those languages are compiled whereas most node apps are transpiled. Someone correct me if I’m mistaken.
Calling for secession is not directly a criminal offense. The charges were sedition and misuse of public funds. The latter is fairly clear, the former is a more gray area (in Spain, sedition is a public tumultuous rising to stop laws from applying, using violence or illegal methods) and one could debate whether it applies or not. But in both cases, the reasoning was that the Catalan government did not have the competence to hold that referendum, was notified of that by legal means and they disobeyed those orders. That was the core of the decision, not about the contents of the referendum but the fact that they didn't have the authority to do it and did it nevertheless.

> and that the central government should have (a) staged the referendum and (b) campaigned in it.

When some people think that giving Catalonia enough entity to even consider independence is too much, a referendum is out of the question. If the central government had been open to hold the referendum they would also have been open to previous smaller claims from Catalonia that would probably have satisfied enough people and dropped support for independency.
>Who is getting paid writing this crap?

I'm not sure what you are expecting. Either you try and locate cheats on the machine / in memory via some heuristic or look for software that is acting suspicious like trying to write into your game's memory.
It seems like you're mixing up the orientation of the country, as far as the cardinal directions go. It is indeed in the North-Eastern part.
I think these types of posts are what separate nerds from…………geeks.
You can't be both condescending towards me for not providing hard evidence of my conjecture and then simultaneously make conjectures yourself without any evidence. You gotta pick one.
Oh it’s a great question. Code this solution without having to worry about why. If only the job was actually like that. The why is 10x the how, IRL, once you get beyond IC0.5.
In the future, 99% of knowledge will be from 1991 on. Those stacks of books in the library, all that knowledge, don't exist unless they can be hyperlinked.

The medium is the message, and Wiki is History.
Ah thanks! Thought I'd missed out for a bit there.
> This is a genuine question - should anyone take cryptocurrency seriously? To me, the only purpose of it is to make money. It's the stock market, but with less rules, and it's 24/7.

I would say no. It's a technology that serves no practical purpose, since the problems it addresses are ones purely created by certain peculiar ideologies. If you're not indulging in one of those ideologies, there's no point. And, like you mentioned, it doesn't even succeed at addressing those problems. A virtual technology can't free you from real-world power, because it's dependent on the real world and can be attacked there, where it's weak.

From outside those peculiar ideologies, something like Bitcoin is like an application written so badly that it's like 486 PC that requires as much energy as Argentina to run. Why should anyone want something like that?